Comment by palijer
2 hours ago
Phone thieves aren't checking which phone brand I have before they knick my phone. Your scenerio is not improved by making Oneplus phones impossible to use once they're stolen.
2 hours ago
Phone thieves aren't checking which phone brand I have before they knick my phone. Your scenerio is not improved by making Oneplus phones impossible to use once they're stolen.
It reduces the expected value of stealing a phone, which reduces the demand for stolen phones.
I find it hard to believe that Oneplus is spending engineering and business recourses, upsetting a portion of their own userbase, and creating more e-waste because they want to reduce the global demand for stolen phones. They only have like 3% of the total market, they can't realistically move that needle.
I don't understand what business incentives they would have to make "reduce global demand for stolen phones" a goal they want to invest in.
This is a security feature from Qualcomm. So there is little of their own time spent on this.