{"id":53046,"date":"2013-10-14T21:52:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T19:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=53046"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:05:56","slug":"rumor-googles-mobile-meter-app-will-offer-rewards-for-tracking-your-mobile-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/rumor-googles-mobile-meter-app-will-offer-rewards-for-tracking-your-mobile-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: Google&#8217;s &#8220;Mobile Meter&#8221; app will offer rewards for tracking your mobile usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google already tracks some user behavior on the web and on its <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> operating system but the company could begin rewarding participants who sign up for deeper monitoring. <em>Engadget<\/em> reports that Google is working on a project known as &#8220;Mobile Meter,&#8221; which will allow the company to track usage statistics on both Android and <a title=\"iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/ios\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a>. Mobile Meter will allegedly anonymize data to protect user privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Android already asks users <a title=\"How to setup Google accounts on Android 4.3\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/how-to-setup-google-accounts-on-android-4-3\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">during setup<\/a> if they would like to send anonymous usage data to Google but Mobile Meter will apparently dig deeper than what Android already provides. Usage statistics from Mobile Meter will detail which apps you use, how long you use them, and perhaps how you use them. It&#8217;s interesting that Google is rumored to be bringing Mobile Meter to iOS as well, allowing the company to gain insight into its competitor&#8217;s operating system.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/h4>\n<h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/is-a-google-launcher-coming-to-android-kitkat\">Is a Google launcher coming to Android KitKat?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-to-begin-using-your-photo-for-advertisements\">Google to begin using your photo for advertisements<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-maps-for-android-updated-with-compact-cards-better-expanded-notifications\">Google Maps for Android updated with compact cards, better expanded notifications<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Since this is all speculation, Google has declined to comment on Mobile Meter. There&#8217;s little information as to what incentives users will receive by opting into deep tracking nor is there any information about how Google will be allowed to track usage on iOS.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Engadget\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/10\/14\/google-mobile-meter-tracking-ios-android-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Engadget<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google already tracks some user behavior on the web and on its Android operating system but the company could begin rewarding participants who sign up for deeper monitoring. Engadget reports that Google is working on a project known as &#8220;Mobile Meter,&#8221; which will allow the company to track usage statistics on both Android and iOS. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/rumor-googles-mobile-meter-app-will-offer-rewards-for-tracking-your-mobile-usage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rumor: Google&#8217;s &#8220;Mobile Meter&#8221; app will offer rewards for tracking your mobile usage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-53046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331998,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53046\/revisions\/331998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53046"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=53046"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=53046"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=53046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}