[AndrewGaspar]

As a laptop owner, this actually sounds pretty good, because it heavily dis-incentivizes theft. However, as a laptop buyer, it's hard not to feel like Apple's security posture is conveniently aligned with their market interests.

[sudhirj]

It increases participation in the second hand market, actually. This only applies to Macs stolen / sold without a reset, so when I buy second hand I know the Mac wasn’t stolen, and I know there’s less incentive to steal this laptop because thieves can’t use it anyway.

[agloeregrets]

This! One of the biggest upsides. Apple goods were the gold prize for thiefs back a few years ago.

[AndrewGaspar]

Fair point!

[natch]

What’s wrong with Apple having market interests and protecting their customers at the same time?

You could argue that theft would increase Apple’s sales, because the people buying stolen ones were never going to buy a new one anyway, and the relatively well off victims of theft have to buy a replacement from Apple, again and again.

So not sure what you mean.

If you mean it’s in their market interest to make sure their customers are well taken care of, I see no problem with that.

[gowld]

If my device is high risk for theft, I'm less inclined to pay a lot for it. https://www.google.com/search?q=kia+hyundai+challenge