One time about 10 years ago, I must have been really stressed out because I couldn’t do the swipe pattern right to unlock my phone, I couldn’t really remember it, but I kept trying, I risked a dangerous guess, and my phone erased.
Modern phones are essentially bricked if your phone got reset the wrong way (eg: remote wipe, or bootloader recovery menu), then you have to enter your Google/Apple account credentials, so if you forgot that, its as good as e-waste.
The original intent of these locks was supposedly to deter theft, so the question was more like: Do you think Google and Apple’s activation locks / FRP are a good way to deter theft?
Another time, we found a Nintendo switch that was lost on a bus, we called nintendo to try to return it to its owner, but they couldn’t do it. So we weren’t sure what was the point of having to log in to the Nintendo account.
One time about 10 years ago, I must have been really stressed out because I couldn’t do the swipe pattern right to unlock my phone, I couldn’t really remember it, but I kept trying, I risked a dangerous guess, and my phone erased.
Is that what you meant?
Modern phones are essentially bricked if your phone got reset the wrong way (eg: remote wipe, or bootloader recovery menu), then you have to enter your Google/Apple account credentials, so if you forgot that, its as good as e-waste.
The original intent of these locks was supposedly to deter theft, so the question was more like: Do you think Google and Apple’s activation locks / FRP are a good way to deter theft?
Another time, we found a Nintendo switch that was lost on a bus, we called nintendo to try to return it to its owner, but they couldn’t do it. So we weren’t sure what was the point of having to log in to the Nintendo account.