Shame on you, Tim Cook.Ditto for the heads of Google, Microsoft, and Samsung.Apple and their competitors are profiting immensely off the annual worldwide sales of 712.6 million smartphones.They have technology built into the phone that would make early computer scientists both envious and astonished.Yet they haven’t bothered to equip their phones with technology that would render them useless after they are stolen.Critics in law enforcement believe they know why. Apple et al benefit immensely from the sale of replacement phones. Implementing technology that would make it impossible to thieves to benefit from on the black market would cut into their sales.In San Francisco, District Attorney George Gascon notes that stealing of smartphones now account for more than 50 percent of all theft in that city.It’s not much better in New York City where smartphone theft is blamed for a 14 percent increase this past year in the overall crime rate.Gascon met with Apple honchos about the problem but they didn’t seem interested at all in stepping up to the plate.