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by eps 1231 days ago
If it collects actionable data, yes, of course it works.

Crashes, common failures, UI/UX friction points, avarage usage patterns - all can be used to prioritize work to take care of things that have the biggest impact.

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I asked for actual concrete evidence, not "can be used".

Is there an example of a program that was crap, implemented telemetry and then got better afterwards? (and of course controlled for factors that might have improved the program anyway)

I mean since telemetry advocates are so into how useful data is, surely they must have data on whether telemetry itself works?