Truth in Update Notices
Mar
12
2015
I try not to upgrade my software.
For reference, here is an example of what you might see sometimes when you start a program:
If I were in charge of the wording on the upgrade notices, here is what it would look like:
and hired counselors against them to frustrate their counsel all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra 4:5
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March 13th, 2015 at 1:31 am
CALM DOWN FIREFOX
March 13th, 2015 at 7:11 am
Apparently I’m not the only one.
March 13th, 2015 at 12:09 pm
I stopped using Firefox because I didn’t like the Mac version. If they love updating, I’m not tempted to go back.
I used to think Adobe was the worst about constantly updating their software, but then I put the Instagram app on my phone. Instagram is frequently posting updates FOR NO APPARENT REASON. Almost all of their updates list only “bug fixes and performance improvements” as the reason for updating, but there’s never (seriously, never ever) a perceptible difference with those updates. There’s no reason they couldn’t collect those little changes and release no more than a quarter of the updates they release now. (Maybe even fewer than that.) Some companies must just really, really like pushing out updates.