Chrome does too, I hear.

I tried to make that work, but it didn't seem to do anything. Repeat downloads took just as long as before.

And you can. Doesn't mean all your users' personal devices comply with the request to do so.

Actually, my iphone won't update unless it's being connected via WLAN rather than WWLAN. Makes me kindof of a persona non grata at friends where I have a WLAN password, and the first thing happening if I'm on a visit is that my iphone updates itself. Though it's not as bad as people with Windows notebooks exhausting my mobile plan when they're at my place.

that's a flippant guess. the underlying reasons or the reasoning for others' decisions may not be apparent to you (i.e., under-explained).

beyond that, if decisions others make often seem not reasonable, it's probable that you disagree with the values on which those decisions are based, rather than those business decisions being without reason. you may be entirely justified in your disagreement, but that's a different animal from unreasonableness.

also, most business decisions are made under uncertainty and with imperfect information (under-informed), and many can seem less reasonable in hindsight as a result.

in any case, it's really unlikely that decision makers are chaos monkeys even if it seems that way from your vantage point.

I want to point out that software and space are quite different problems. Much of the engineering for space appears to be mathematically differentiable and continuous -- a small change in inputs usually results in a predictable change in outputs. It's hard work, but relatively intuitive.

Software is more chaotic though. A small change in inputs can change behavior drastically, like stepping a tiny bit to the right on a branch of the Mandelbrot set. It's sometimes easier work, but often relatively counterintuitive.