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From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
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JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote

>>> And locked phones actually cost more to the carrier

>> No they don’t.

> Yes they do.

No they don’t.

> There is the extra step to lock the phone,

Not necessarily.

> record the unlock codes into some database

It isn't necessarily done like that.

> (and build that database/software).

Not if it isn't done like that. And even when it is,
that is done for the first one and doesn’t need to
be done again.

> This has to be done for every phone.

Wrong.

And when a carrier asks for a price on a million or ten locked phones,
they will get a better price just because they are getting so many and
the locking is included in what they get for the much better price.

> In the case of the iPhone, in  Apple stores in Canada,

Irrelevant to locked phones in general.

> it means that the staff have to spend extra time to lock the phone

Not if a million or ten are shipped to a carrier from the factory locked.

> (and again, have spend money to build the phone lock database

That is just one way of doing locked phones.

> which is used not only by the carriers to unlock phones,

Not all locked phones are done that way.

> but also by Apple servers when they
> serve each phone with locked software.

They don’t necessarily have locked software.