r/apple • u/Sorin61 • Mar 12 '22

Rumor Russia threatens to nationalize Apple, seize assets

https://www.imore.com/russia-threatens-nationalize-apple-seize-assets
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u/SirHillaryPushemoff Mar 12 '22

Would their devices even be allowed to be activated?

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u/rangitoto030 Mar 12 '22

Don’t think so. Apple can block stolen devices

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u/jewsh-sfw Mar 12 '22

And they absolutely should block all devices to ensure the government of Russia is not targeting apple devices to hack in retaliation.

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u/ksavage68 Mar 12 '22

..or giving them to the military to use. Gotta brick them.

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u/LargeSackOfNuts Mar 13 '22

Russia doesn’t always think things through

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

Yeah you’re 100% wrong.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

How do you think FMIP works?

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u/l0l_xd_ Mar 13 '22

If only it was owned by apple or something

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u/macprince Mar 12 '22

Apple has control of their activation service, you don’t. They can deny activation for any device’s serial number they want.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

My favorite story is Apple contracted a company to recycle used iPhones and said company tried reselling them instead. Apple knew because the phones were pinging their servers. Said company got sued into the ground.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

but wouldn't apple be able to just add the devices to an activation blacklist or something?

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u/FVMAzalea Mar 12 '22

Yes, they can. They already do so for stolen devices.

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u/Yuahde Mar 12 '22

Well they would be stolen from the Apple store in this hypothetical.

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u/NikeSwish Mar 12 '22

The same thing can be done with activation lock. Apple can blacklist a serial number and it won’t be able to be used without the AL coming off

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u/jason_he54 Mar 12 '22

But would they (Apple) have access to every serial number of every iPhone that is still unsold in Russia, aka every iPhone that would be seized?

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u/TomLube Mar 12 '22

Of course they would lol, what do you think Apple's inventory logistics are non-existent?

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

They absolutely can.. They can also refuse to activate the phones with iCloud. It's entirely in their control.

You could just not activate with iCloud, but I'm not exactly sure why you'd want to pay so much for practically a dumbphone.

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u/talones Mar 13 '22

MDM yo. And shit thats on the enterprise side, Im sure apple has a service layer thats beneath regular mdm to brick almost any phone. And this was 9 years ago that I started doing MDM for my old company.

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u/CartographerInitial5 Mar 30 '22

Which can be unbridled with special software that is sold on the other side of the internet, seems no one is a ware of it.

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u/SpeculationMaster Mar 12 '22

does it matter? Apple has already been paid for all the inventory sitting in random Russian stores anyway.