Don't think so, if you have the passphrase saved you can always get access to your gemz, even if you get another phone. But you should be able to withdraw your gemz even if your phone number is changed, i would wait for daniel to confirm.

Last time i checked the app had a 4.5 star rating on the play store, won citis mobile challenge, been on r/bitcoin frontpage multiple times in couple days, had more than 10k wallets opened and been written about in the coinbase blog https://goo.gl/bFnUHs. That update what you are talking about isn't hard to understand, by default everyone must store their passphrase and even when they upload to a new version they can recover their btc anyway so no btc is lost and it's no rocket science. It was posted at a time where the app didn't had many users, all new users don't have to do this.

As is true for most software, the developers are at liberty to make changes at any given time if needed, same as btc, eth etc.

Anyone noticed getgems rating going from 4.5 stars to 4.6 on the play store.

Regarding the $400,000 investment in the seed fundraising, what does Magma the investor get for return? Did they get $400,000 worth coins for return or somehthing else in the future for return?

I thought the gemz was the sole income resources within the ecosystem of this project if it takes off in the future. If there are company stock shares, how will the company make profit besides the gemz?

No, no one should work for free because it will not be sustainable for working free. That is why I try to understand the revenue model of this project. There is a pie in the future if successful and I hope the devs and the crowd fundraising investors and the seeding fundraising investor are very clear which slices they will get. If it is not clear and transparent, there will be problems in the sustainable development.

BTW: I still haven't gotten any GEMs for my two refferals. (Waiting for this to be fixed before I refer more)

I haven't gotten credit for some of mine too.  Apparetnly its recorded and will be credited.  Needs to be fixed soon though.  People like instant gratification and instant reward.