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Comment by Waterluvian | Hacker News Reader

I'm constantly being harassed to set my iTunes password and to update my iOS on my iPad. I don't want to. Leave me alone, apple. This is my iPad, not yours.

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Same here. I don't use my iPad all the time, more as an ebook and paper reader, and the experience is now getting similar to the experience I have with my Windows pc, which I also only use occasionally (for gaming), and which needs half an hour of updates on every start.

My PS3 is terrible for this.

If you think about it, this

> needs half an hour of updates on every start.

is directly caused by this

> only use occasionally

If you want a secure system but this bothers you, just leave the PC on once in a while.

Assuming the version of iOS you're running has significant security flaws, what should Apple's preferred behaviour be here?

Discourage disabling the harassment/auto updates but ultimately make it possible?

Imagine if windows just kinda foisted it upon you. People would be upset.

Android updates are very un-intrusive. It's just a notification and ends up in the same black hole unread emails and facebook friend requests go [1].

I wish Android updates were more aggressive.

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[1] anecdata: I know 4-5 older people with Samsung phones. 100% of them had received an update notification and had ignored it

> Leave me alone, apple. This is my iPad, not yours.

That's where you're wrong.

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