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by aren55555 1727 days ago
As an ex-Googler I believe they also use the data collection to "improve" products such as the Pixel phones. For example, they can compare the # of iPhones purchase receipts (emails accumulated from Apple, Amazon, Best Buy, etc) to the # of Pixel purchases. They compare this kind of stuff YoY and to Google's equivalent products and can build a pretty accurate picture of market adoption.