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I think this is shortsighted. Criminals might be the target of this policy today, but when these machines are no longer current, the owners of the machines might no longer know or care where the device is, and they will still be unusable. This to me is unacceptable.

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So how many thefts, home break-ins, violent assaults etc should we tolerate so that in decades to come the devices can still be usable.

Even though at any point said device can be unlocked, transferred, sold etc.

As long as the owner can still log in to their iCloud account they can deregister their device. This is a non-issue.

I think its wrong to be dismissive of how inacessible this could become if apple is no longer a company

For almost any other company, I think this would be a reasonable concern.

Given Apple's staggering pile of cash, I think that we'll have decades of warning if they're going to stop existing.

This is really an issue of control. A company that designs and sells computers, which creates a conflict of interest, should not be in the business of controlling access to a computer. That should be handled by the customer. Otherwise they will use the market position to dictate how that control is used. It's a lose across the board, you are not thinking long term.

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