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  • Edit: I thought this is about data and not the storage media itself lol.

    Obvious answer: It depends.

    One individual can have TBs of storage assigned to them, like a cloud storage with years worth of high res family photos or videos, or TBs worth of… homework and Linux distros. This would be nearly useless / cost more to gather than it has a value.

    On the other hand, a group of people can have mere kilobytes of text messages between them that is potentially worth millions of dollars stored on a server, like trade secrets or war plans.

    A special case to consider: The data of John Doe type individuals I described first can be a valuable asset too if its not one individual but a big accumulation of thousands / millions of people, especially of they can be made comparable to one another. We see this in advertising and will probably realize this value more and more in crowd surveillance and control / opinion making. Especially if all of this data gets analyzed and reduced to machine readable tokens, possibly even on the users end devices, which means the data gets more valuable and more compact at the same time.

    My final answer would be: It effectively ranges from negative to positive millions / billions of $ per any given unit.



  • Those do not have to cancel each other out necessarily. The open and modular design of Application APIs in AOSP lets the user decide which way they want to interact with the devices they own compared to the walled garden. Graphene does an excellent job by leveraging this design with further encapsulation while focusing on baseline compatibility and keeping up with google. Sadly the last one is a difficult task, so some features may take their time, while others we may never see.