[londons_explore]

> only good enough against the average thief off the street,

Even there, only Apple has effective protection against street-thieves. Nearly all other models of phones/laptops can have their anti-theft features reset by a guy in a dark alley with a flash programmer...

So far, most thieves aren't interested in your info, they just want to reset the hardware and give it a new serial number.

[FirmwareBurner]

Most other makes of phones and laptops aren't as valuable as Apple's to be big targets of theft. And Samsung has KNOX and Pixels have Google's Titan security.