I saw your comment and just finished listening to it, to those that can't be bothered to, he boils it down to: they don't want you to lose all of your social network if you lose your device. Imagine having to re-discover every user you've communicated with because you no longer have their identifiers, which I think is a fair argument to make.
Also, now that we know the timestamp, we know this user spread two pieces of misinformation in 28 words: Iran was never mentioned and it was not the first question in the QA. I think some snark is well justified here.
> they don't want you to lose all of your social network if you lose your device. Imagine having to re-discover every user you've communicated with because you no longer have their identifiers, which I think is a fair argument to make.
Other networks solved this by not blocking backup.
Take it up with him then. I live in one of those countries where I can purchase a SIM card for like €2 without needing an ID, so I can't say I'm personally invested in this phone number discussion one way or the other.
Also, now that we know the timestamp, we know this user spread two pieces of misinformation in 28 words: Iran was never mentioned and it was not the first question in the QA. I think some snark is well justified here.