[Android General] Old faithful:
Ed, thank you again for responding, I truly appreciate it :)

These are figures I have from my wife's RAZR CirclesWidget3D, that I got after during a routine examination of her device's data, after noticing that it was using a fair amount on mine after having installed it on my own device. I'll make a test over a couple of days to get more data in for a better assessment of the situation.

There is also the issue with "OS Services" taking up a significant amount when WiFi is on and nothing else runs in the background (as a matter of fact, with WiFi and cellular data off through Avast! firewall). Since "OS Sevices" is a description that seems to be unique to My Data Manager, I am now starting to wonder what it is really related to. 256KB per hour when access to cell and wifi is completely turned off makes tyou wonder what's going on on the background. After all, that's 6MB per day doing nothing at all for the user.

And just now, while I was checking my email and the posts here on my device, leaving the WiFi on for just 5 minutes, was enough for Download Manager to rack up 6MB. Of what? That is my question, I have sync off and no message came up to tell me a component was to be upgraded...

The thing is... Why am I not told what's going on?

And is this 100 times bigger page giving you 100 times more information?

There was a lot of meaningful, fresh, innovative stuff going on then with almost zero garbage, almost pure content, hypertext in close to pure form, I actually loved the concept so much, I started writing my reports in Winhelp Hypertext, at a time when no one even heard of the term, much less understood its extraordinary possibilities... Especially popups (great for technical word definitions and concept schematics)... But people weren't ready, then Microsoft sunk it... Should have converted to CHM, but by that time I got too busy in work and had little time left for software development . So I reverted to the standard, substandard format every body uses now, PDF (where even today, you still cannot create popup definitions and pictures within documents)

Those were innovative times, just like Android is experiencing now (OK, perhaps I am a bit too enthusiastic about Android - I've come a bit late to the party after all).

So yes... Those were the 'good ole days' in my view... Let me wipe a tear now :D

OK, I admit my ignorance about that standard and my irritation at having to submit to it. But not being given a CHOICE, be it for simplicity, is pure arrogance. Give me a default location if you will, but give me the choice to override it if I wish. This is MY device, after all.

Or all users to be considered mindless consumers? Or is my concern so ridiculous in your view that it should be dismissed a mere trolling? Don't be shy, I'm neither afraid of criticism nor of ridicule... If there's something I've learned in this life is to expect to learn something new every day...

This is specious argumentation. You know full well that we have no REAL choice in the matter, just like we have no real choice but to agree to a license agreement when installing software on PCs.

I assure you it was all software... Google simply isn't telling how far it's tentacles go into the OS and what dependencies this app has. Like the voice to text feature that requires Google Search (something totally unrelated but evidently entwined with it). Would it be too much to ask to disclose the dependencies of your software? Anyway it's mostly moot for me now as I've been able to find most of my stuff outside of the Play Store from sources that on top of that better respect my right to privacy and anonymity.