It happens all too often. You turn your back, and bam! Your iPod is gone. It's been pinched. Jacked. Stolen. If you're one of the victims of this gadget crime spree, how pissed off would you be if you discovered that Apple has the ability to report, disable, or at least help track these stolen goods?Good thoughts, a friend of mine and I were just talking about this the other day! But they did not quite cover the simplicity of the process that Apple could enact! Every iPod's serial number is digitally encoded and available to their software (take a look at the "Extras/About this iPod" screen on any iPod, right there is the serial number, so why couldn't the iTunes software used to 'load' music on a stolen iPod, during such a load, contact Apple and validate the serial number? I can think of a couple of reasons that the 'privacy police' would use to protest this (don't get me wrong, in most cases the 'privacy police' have valid reasons for their protests/complaints and I support them wholly, but there are times when they take it too far, this would be one such case), which is probably why Apple will never do this, but a 'registered charger' is going to be just as difficult, if not more so, since it means you better have YOUR charger with you at all times, since you will not be 'allowed' to use someone else's! ^.^
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