Yes, and because the screen was smaller than the 6s and 6splus, it actually had better battery life, plus the same performance. So even though it wasn't the most heavily marketed phone, it was the "best".
Encrypted copy != plain text storage. Plain text implies "not encrypted" - an encrypted string representing your password would (in encryption terms) be ciphertext, not plaintext.
This is basically the plot of the new Blake Crouch novel Recursion - except the "device" requires you to die while reliving a past memory (after which you travel back in time to the moment the memory occurred).
Why would it be illegal? If you voluntarily give your phone number to a company, it can do whatever it wants with it. If you don't want them to have it, don't give it to them.
> hard data about the whispering campaign going on behind your back, the conversations from which you are excluded.
This is not necessarily harassment. People not agreeing with you, thinking you are stupid or unqualified, talking to each other about it - does not constitute harassment. Especially on a public, anonymous forum.
> that the harassment does actually exist, and is not a mere allegation by you being paranoid.
if you are referencing your first line, it still isn't harassment just because you say so.
> that other people can go verify the hostile attitudes and expressions for themselves.
People reacting in a hostile manner to a person's ideas or opinions isn't harassment.
> provides real, externally verifiable evidence of problems at facebook, not coming merely from the famous "disgruntled ex-employee"
Maybe, maybe these are real verifiable problems at facebook. But the conversation regarding this woman's position on diversity isn't necessarily harassment. Even extremely stupid, backwards, phobic comments aren't harassment. Those comments aren't directed at her and even though the people making them are horribly misguided, classifying all the conversation around her position as "harassment" is disingenuous.
Apple's business model is not selling your data for advertisements. They make their money the old-fashioned way - charging customers for their product (hardware).