You must be really old, like me.
Not interested in being cool, hip, and popular with the senseless mob, being able to discuss "Apps' and all...
Funny thing, I have not seen much discussion about the frequency when losing your entire life's data when the (criminally attractive) device breaks, is lost or stolen.
I figure the next step with all that is to lure the users 'into the cloud', where their data will be "safe" (and able to be searched, pilfered, or 'lost').
That isn't actually a problem, since you sync (back up) your phone to your computer. If something happens to the phone, you just restore your data to a new phone. If your computer is a Mac, most likely you're backing all your data up, including the sync data, to an external/network drive.
At least for the iPhone, if you lose it or it's stolen, you can locate it via GPS, and/or remotely wipe and brick it. The default protection is a four digit PIN, but you can only try to guess it a few times before the phone locks you out for increasingly long timeouts.
The Apple devices back up everything to Apple servers so you can get it back. And if someone steals it you can not only locate it and send the police, you can also nuke it to keep the data from getting out.
Because with an iPhone that can only happen if you are really stupid.
My sister lost her phone to a thief in the Grocery store. I traced it to a home on the nearby lake and directed the police right to a home they were familiar with, one iPhone is recovered, all her data was backed up to her computer, iPad and the cloud.
She lives in Oklahoma, I am in Oregon.
The info isn’t physically attached to a specific phone any more. I recently upgraded phones, every thing was there when I activated the new phone. My son took my old phone and logged onto his account and all of his stuff was waiting there fore him.
That may be why you don’t hear about it. It’s not like having a disc crash on your PC.