Can someone unlock my password protected iPad / iPhone by syncing it to a computer other than mine ? ( i.e.  a computer where the devise was never synced before )

Kappy, Thank you so much for your answer.

This is no good news. Why does apple allow this to be the case?

I have been pass codeding my bios and windows login screens on my laptops for the past ten years, so no one could use my laptops if found or stolen ( well, I mean your average Joe Sixpack can't do it). This would give people an incentive to return what they found and get the reward.

Apple should provide an option to prevent reinstalling a fresh iOS from a non recognized device. I can't believe that this simple security feature doesnt exist on a $749 2012 "intelligent" device, while it is there on a decade old laptop made by a mediocre manufacture. This is where I don't get apple again. I am no genius to think of this, they must have thought of it at one point and decided for some reason to keep it the way it is now. I totally don't get it.

Is there away to prevent people from using my devices if lost? any ideas?

Iguess what I am trying to say is simply this " Security for data but not for the phone " is a decision like anything else in a product. And if costumer satisfaction is really your aim as a company then the decision is easy. I guess Apple doesn't want us to have this feature because they know that once we lose an iphone, we are going to go and buy a new one, so this feature is bad for sales, so we were denied it. I guess after all when it comes to thinking outside the " how to make more money regardless of what your costumers really think of you" box, Apple is just like the rest. They only way they woud get it, if this feature becomes a selling point for a rival company were apple starts losing market shares. Really disappointed.

Tanks for the answer again.

Sure, I will. Good idea.

Tonefox, Kappy,

Thank you both for your Comments.

While I don't won't to start a debate here, I must admit that I belong to a rare bread of apple fans: the obnoxiously critical bunch, the more I love a product the more critical I become towards that product, because I would like to see more and more improvement.

I would like to remind you that all the laptops that I have owned for the past decade had this simple security feature. And, yes, you won't be able to use them if you don't have the bios passcode. ( unless you know how to crack the bios, not easy)

I understand the car/ bike / washing machine argument. However, a laptop, a phone and an tv is diffrent. These can be protected because you can have that feature in their operating system, and have the operating system unalterable without the passcode( just like my old 2001 Dell laptop ). Comparing an iPhone to a car or a truck might not be the best example.

We can all disagree with each others forever, but I guess I can confidently say that if your iPad gets stolen, you would, at least, want the SOB who stole it be totaly unable to make any use of it. Am I being unrealistic here too? Unless you are a total pacifist, I think you would agree with me.

Thanks again for your comments.