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This is a professional debug techique, what are you talking about? But I rather use ‘Hii’ with various (but not ascending) amounts of i’s.

Edward Snowden remarked:

Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

There is a wikipedia article regarding this argument

I get your point, but third-party app stores are optional. You can still only download apps from THE App Store.

And I get what you mean, when it comes to the longevity of devices. I feel like this will change in the future, but time will tell.