You really, really need to cite a source about the Apple thing. This blog article is independently verifiable: people went and observed the behavior of their Android phones. Please point to someone doing the same with an iOS device.
Edit: Closest thing I can find to an answer, is what Carrier IQ is hiring for [1]. They're not hiring for serious iOS experience at the moment - instead, what they put in boldface for the software engineer position amounts to deep knowledge of Android internals. That is not conclusive, but it's evidence about what they do.