A pair of burglars smashed the left-front entrance door at The Domain (Austin, Tex.) Apple store early Sunday morning and made off with at least three laptops. According to police reports, a nearby resident heard glass breaking and saw two men run towards a parked Mazda hatchback and flee the area. The shopping mall has been hit at least twice before during the past year, according to police, but it’s not clear if the crimes are related. Watch a video report about the burglary here.
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Well…the good thing is that when they try to take these machines on-line, that their IP addresses will show up, and SOMEONE will be able to track them.
The question is what can be done. I mean Apple has these really beautiful entrances and windows that are just glass, no other sort of security measures. But what can they do besides lock up the computers with actual locks and not the little beeping devices? The answer is nothing. They won’t use those locks, they already have cameras in all their stores, and they most certainly will not add security gates over both the windows and the doors, only mall stores have the gates because they don’t have doors, so come closing time, something needs to keep people out. Hopefully Apple has some sort of custom Lo-jack installed, that’d be sweet if they could track down their own computers themselves. I want to see Steve Jobs go all Las Vegas pitboss on these crooks.
-Brian
Security should always be a consideration. This is retail.
Stores with glass fronts to open streets should be double secured. Have the glass in front and behind the display area. Cold climates such as the Aspen Grove store in Denver should be double doors. I would hate to work or shop at a store for Christmas and be looking at a MacBook Air and have the door open to sub-freezing wind. Apple could use gates to double secure these locations. Things that can be totally moved out of the way during business hours. Also, maybe display computers should be display only. Any reason why they need working CD/DVD drives in them. Crooks completely wipe out the hard drive so it looks new. Also special short-life batteries. Maybe even a special serial number series.
And Apple should support a website listing stolen computer serial numbers. I think that they don’t do it now because it looks bad to potential customers. (And your investment is a prime theft item.) Serial numbers reported by consumers must include a police report.