[newman8r]

> All Apple needs to prove ownership is a picture of your receipt or a screenshot of the invoice if purchased online, whether from Apple or a third party.

If that's true, couldn't someone just print out a fake invoice, with no way for them to verify it either way?

[RKearney]

I’ve never seen invoices or receipts without some kind of unique identifier on them that could then be verified. My receipts from Chipotle are even uniquely identified by the store number, register number, date, and incrementing order number for the day.

[newman8r]

I wonder what happens if the third party retailer you bought it from goes out of business and can no longer be verified. Must be relatively rare. I'm curious if they just give the consumer the benefit of the doubt in those cases.

[aspenmayer]

As Apple is the first company to ever reach a $3 trillion dollar market cap, I’m not sure they find this to be a high priority, as they have the means to both track and remotely disable stolen devices. I believe the first time they deployed this capability en masse was after protests and looting a year or so ago.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/local-authorities-wi...