Positive news about Apple, on the Apple enthusiast community? And only half of the comments are negative?

This seems like a positive move no matter how you spin it. Hopefully their solution works well to make stolen phones completely worthless.

Having had a phone stolen out of my hand while talking on it, I can say I’d rather pay more and be more wasteful than let a person who would do that make money off of it, but I’m sure most don’t feel that way.