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The main problem I see with this business model is not the primary characteristics of this model which sound like a rent. But I have a feeling that having such a model does decrease the drive to innovate. In a pay-once model you always need to entice the customer with new features or open up entirely new markets. With subscription, the customer will basically pay for maintenance.

How would the world of cars have looked if it had a primarily subscription model (which will probably come in this area as well)?

So long story short, I find subscription model bad because it drives down innovation.

Just thinking out loud here, as I was considering something like this.

I can also not give up the WhatsApp account due to the social pressure. What if I would use a second phone, a cheap one, used only for the whatsapp (and some other essential but privacy invasive apps). I would not have that second phone always with me, but it would provide me access to the social network I need without feeling tracked or providing more data than needed.

I do understand that this doesn't fix exactly the issue presented here, but I already assumed that whatsapp data was already in Facebook's hands one way or another. But I would limit the amount of information that WhatsApp can track about me by having this application on a phone which does not really represent my full actions as i don't have it with me.

Edit: Corrected some typos.

In Germany's case the main explanation from lead virologists is that they are testing much more and were lucky to catch it early. Germany had from the beginning a capacity of about 100k tests per week. Now they are increasing that.

So in conclusion, for Germany the number of infections is a bit closer to reality, where in Italy and Spain that number is/was much more far off.