Phone thieves aren't checking which phone brand I have before they knick my phone. Your scenerio is not improved by making Oneplus phones impossible to use once they're stolen.

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creato 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It reduces the expected value of stealing a phone, which reduces the demand for stolen phones.

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palijer 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I find it hard to believe that Oneplus is spending engineering and business recourses, upsetting a portion of their own userbase, and creating more e-waste because they want to reduce the global demand for stolen phones. They only have like 3% of the total market, they can't realistically move that needle.

I don't understand what business incentives they would have to make "reduce global demand for stolen phones" a goal they want to invest in.

	▲	charcircuit an hour ago \| parent [-]
		This is a security feature from Qualcomm. So there is little of their own time spent on this.