You never own an iPhone, regardless of how you purchase or rent it. Try repairing it, try installing software outside of Apple’s control on it, try to turn off features you don’t like/want. You don’t own any Apple product, you use them and you’re at the mercy of Apple.

Humans need to stop naming things “Snowflake”. We have too many. Perform an internet search with “snowflake SUFFIX”, where SUFFIX is any other term, eg Crypto or Database or Movie, and you will get at least one hit.

I’m a bit sad for Neon Modem Overdrive to not have been included to make it a flat 1.0 on that list. :-)