Apple just made stolen iPhones much harder to sell

Apple just made stolen iPhones much harder to sell

London phone snatchers, the kind who whip past on a bike and grab an iPhone out of your hand, are running into a wall this year. Following a strategic partnership between the city’s Metropolitan Police Service and Apple, robbery numbers have dwindled. Interestingly, the partnership has nothing to do with catching phone thieves and more to do with making the stolen phones themselves worthless. The end goal is to dismantle the entire resale market…