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As others mentioned, you have the value backwards.

That said, the right amount of auto transfer of content should be close to 0,a few bytes to notify of updates may be reasonable. Certainly we don't need to have books-worth of software and content transferred without the phone's owner agreeing with that agreement used with extremely narrow scope (I use the word owner here colloquially, as the user paid for the phone).

Stop the abuse of "could" and begin questioning with "should."



At the user's preference, if they don't mind the data use, pre-loading content could improve the user experience.

That kinda supposes it's content the user wants. But what if it's data, like ads, that the user doesn't exactly want but they're going to get anyway? I don't know where the lawsuit will end up, but I can see this ending up as a buried, default-on, setting that most users will never change.




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