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Zoom asks if you want to update after a call, which seems the best time for it to me.

Is that true? Maybe it's different on Mac OS, but for me (on a Mac), Zoom wants to update every time I open it, and often fails. It's very annoying.

I also have to frequently update it before the call on Windows.

Maybe it works as intended if you use it daily, but as someone who only occasionally uses Zoom for external calls I'm in the habit of always opening it a couple minutes early to have time for software updates

I am a few minutes late to meetings probably once a month because Zoom forces as an update right as I'm logging into a meeting.

I just use the browser version, so I assume it is always the latest version. This is one of the compelling arguments for everything is a web page/app. A single centralized place version millions of separately controlled copies.

And the equally compelling anti-argument against everything-is-a-web-page is every time I go to a website I haven't been to in awhile (and some I use on the daily), I need to swat away a cacophony of "What's New! Let's Take a Tour!" popups, like so many cobwebs. :)

of course there are people that want to be examples of "you're why we can't have nice things" or "ruining for the rest of us"

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