Needless to say I had to to refrain from screaming “Then why didn’t you f**king ANSWER IT?”

I sure hope this works better.

Unless this feature is locked by a separate password any kid savvy enough to use the iphone would be savvy enough to defeat it, because you would have to give them the mobile me account password for other things.

I also wonder if this might lead to some serious incidents when clueless hotheads pursue stolen phone and get their asses kicked by the thief’s posse.

Will Officer Friendly go get your phone for you when the precision of it’s location is no better than +/-50 yards?

In a city, this is fairly useless. Indoors its worse. Your average thief would put it on vibrate wouldn’t so you can’t use the obvious “get close and call it” method.

(When I lose my phone, it is usually under the papers on my desk or between the couch cushions. Calling the phone is easier.)

Still it would be nice to find out where you left your phone when you make several stops in your daily travels.

Perhaps apple has figured out some ways around that, such as tying the UDID to your account so that if someone ELSE activates it, the phone can get tracked by them.

Also, thieves aren’t always smart. Someone stole a laptop off my desk (broke into office, stole it since it’s three feet from the door), and a few days later, someone called us on the phone asking how to reset the bios password. That’s right, a laptop chop shop called the “if found, return to:” number and asked the people whose laptop had been stolen, for the bios password.

No, we didn’t get it back.