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How do you like flutter? What are your impressions of the platform.

Personally, I wasn't a big fan of having to disable the telemetry in the SDK itself - thankfully there was a single, small footnote about it in the docs. Not sure what I expected from the Goog honestly, but it was enough to put a bad taste in my mouth. But hey, M$ does it too with the dotnet core SDK, so maybe that's "par for the course" these days. YMMV.

Can you explain more? What does "having to disable the telemetry" mean and what's the effect of that?

Telemetry is when companies measure and collect your usage of their product, in theory so they can improve it, know which features are used and which not, where users spend most time, etc.

As it is a kind of vague definition and you (almost) never know exactly what information is being transmitted, and given the fact that it is Google (or Microsoft, or Apple, or whatever), people sometimes rather just disable telemetry at all.

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