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I'm totally guessing, but could it be actual corporate strategy? If they are easy to steal, AppleCare+ becomes more appealing and/or having to replace them increases sales. It's certainly an easy problem to solve. Can anyone think of any other legitimate reason not to?

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AppleCare+ doesn't cover theft, there is AppleCare+ with Theft and Loss for iPhone in the US but afaik it is not available for AirPods.

Ease of use and they didn’t think of it?

Most headphones don’t have a lockout feature.

They have such a lock out feature on all their other portables and desktops too in fact (activation lock) so I’m mostly surprised it didn’t “naturally” carry over

How would locking them to the owner make them harder to use? They're smart enough and have designed enough software where they could trivially allow the user to share them if desired- that is the only "inconvenience" I can image it would cause.

I doubt they either didn't think of it or that it wasn't suggested frequently.r

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