Comment by jrmg
7 hours ago
That’s all true, but it is also true that iPhone theft is relatively rare.
My assertion is that there would be way, way more theft if you could just downgrade and wipe.
7 hours ago
That’s all true, but it is also true that iPhone theft is relatively rare.
My assertion is that there would be way, way more theft if you could just downgrade and wipe.
It’s rare in the US and very common in London
Is it? Do you have any data to back this up?
Because a quick search for UK statistic shows that even though iPhones are minority of phones over here they are the overwhelmingly majority of all phone theft:
https://www.loveitcoverit.com/news/changing-world/mobile-pho...
"In terms of smartphone models, the data also indicates who might be most at risk. Looking at the entirety of the UK, 68.6% of stolen phones are iPhones."
Your own source says:
“In 2012, the National Crime Survey – which supplies data to the ONS – reported that there were roughly 608,000 theft from a person incidents across England and Wales, which was a high for the decade. However, since then, theft from person cases – including those including smartphones – have fallen year on year. A key factor for this continual decline could be that smartphone security has improved to a point that it’s no longer worth stealing them; with Face ID, trackers, and fingerprint scanners, it’s now harder for criminals to wipe and fence stolen property. It’s also possible that, due to the ubiquity of smartphones, the desire to steal them has simply decreased.”
Sorry, I mean for this part of your post " but it is also true that iPhone theft is relatively rare.".
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