Dear Kappy,
I am not sure if you are one of Apple's assigned employees who goes through all these questions to help give people the best answers; however, the fact of the matter is that anyone who has a turned off lost iPhone is f****d. This is a huge not only stressful, but costly problem for all consumers.
Apple's next breakthrough should be making a tracking device in the phone that people are able to send a signal to in order to find their phone, even if it can only tell you within a certain radius; I don't know if that is possible, but it is better than nothing. Something definitely needs to be made/done to help iPhone consumers to be able to find their phone when it is off, because what if you lost it in your home and it was turned off? There are countless situations where people lose their phones somehow, whether someone stole the phone (and turned it off) or it is wedged perfectly out of sight under the back seat of your car (and it happens to be on silent, or has no power).
Now, you might say "Haha yeah Apple will also work to create magical unicorns too" but the truth is Apple is a multi-billion dollar corperation with thousands of the smartest employees in the world, I lived up in Cupertino for a while, I personally know. The products are great, and we the consumers would really like to keep them. This the second time I have had my iPhone stolen and the person turned it off, I set up my "Find My iPhone"and logged on it as soon as I could, I made sure to look everywhere the places I was in (multiple times), and I made sure the people who own the places I was in aware of my missing phone. I have done everything in my power to find my phone, it is my other half in this new era. I literally find it hard to function without, it has all the info I need for all the things I have to do, pay for, and handle in my everyday life.
My early birthday present from my family was my iPhone because it was $600+ to replace when I lost my last one(but they upgraded me to the 5s). Now I am out of luck because as a full time college student I cannot afford one.
I really wish Apple would use their genius masterminds to develop something in order to help this problem because they have the Brains, Power and Money to do so.
So in conclusion Kappy, your post was not useful to the question, but thank you for the information. If you have the opportunity to pass on my message here to any employee at Apple please do.