> KB of data is a poor indicator of the extent of privacy violation.
Agreed, but this article seemed to primarily focus on how much data is sent while the phone is idle, so I'm addressing the article.
> Maybe Apple are just shipping deltas instead of the full load.
I highly doubt that Apple figured out all it needs is the delta, while Google are morons who don't know that's all they need. Granted "KB of data is a poor indicator of the extent of privacy violation", but it isn't a useless one.