It was a phone that got nicked for godssake - it wasn't state secrets (it really wasn't Jobsy, however important you think Apple is to the future of the world), it wasn't the key to the nuclear button, it wasn't anything that has any real importance - except commercially, and then only to Apple.
If it hadn't got nicked not a single baby would have been saved from dying of starvation, not a single millimeter of polar ice would have been saved from melting, not a single creature that will go extinct would have been prevented from going extinct. It is just a bloody phone isn't it - or did I miss something?