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1.3TB? Their research seems flawed because I'd notice this on my phone bill.


The quote above made it a bit unclear, they measured it at 1MB vs 52kB per device:

> When idle, Android sends roughly 1MB of data to Google every 12 hours, compared with iOS sending Apple about 52KB over the same period. In the US alone, Android collectively gathers about 1.3TB of data every 12 hours. During the same period, iOS collects about 5.8GB.


They said collectively, meaning across the entire fleet of phones deployed.




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