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Re:Chrome Release Cycle by ugh on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @01:19AM (#2091140)
I always wonder why those update dialogs pop up when you start a program. That’s the one point in time when it is very clear that you definitely do want to use the program, the one point in time when you don’t want to be disturbed. Those dialogs would be a lot less annoying if they popped up when you quit the app, still allowing you to opt-out of updates but in a lot less annoying way.

One possible negative effect is that updates get installed later (an average session length later), I wonder whether that’s offset by people not installing updates when the browser starts because they have something better to do?

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Re:Chrome Release Cycle by moe on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @02:17AM (#2091219)
My absolute favorite in terms of updating is Calibre; an otherwise excellent app (albeit with a fairly "experimental" UI).

Calibre tells me about a new release every single time I open it, they seem to release almost daily.

Sadly the "update" button on that dialog merely opens the web-browser, where you have to manually download and install the new version. Oh, and that is a 60MB(!) download every time.

The procedure is so absurd that it's actually amusing again. That's why I'm still doing it, I guess, even though after 20 or 30 updates I still haven't noticed any visible change to the software.

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