People do not give feedback so it's impossible to tell how their programs are being used.
The other choice is to listen to the vocal minority that offers feedback than you get into issues of implementing features that no one wants/uses.
The telemetry in question seems to be logging what is installed, not just how the application is used.
Regardless of consumers willingness to provide feedback it's not a reasonable choice for a large software vendor to collect data from customers computers about competitors products.
Of course it’s reasonable. The other choice is developing blindly or listening to the vocal minority. Both of which hurt ALL users in the end.
It's always been a problem, most people just don't know that because the majority of users don't express their concerns in the way(s) that the developers are open to hearing those concerns.
Note that I'm saying this as someone that generally doesn't mind providing telemetry - but they need to be clear.
This doesn't make any sense. You don't think that every single installation via the iPhone or Android App Store isn't logged and telemetrized?
That is the comparison I was making with the new Windows package manager.
FAANG are also knowingly and willingly breaching the GDPR to this day with all sorts of products.
Just try to exercise your GPDR-given rights as an EU citizen and try getting ALL of your data from e.g. Facebook.
Not the subset of it that you are allowed to download, ALL of it.
You'll be laughed at really, really hard then shown the door.
Don't get me started on Microsoft.