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Websites also never throw up a dialog saying "This app has expired. Please update it to continue."

Almost all my apps do this to me about once a month.

[Obviously I don't let Android update my apps automatically in the background. That way lies madness.]




Had a big bank’s app force me to update. Ok, updated it.

Ok, looks like a total UI refresh.

Tried to schedule a bill payment (which previous version could do, uhh, for 10y+) and threw a dialog saying “coming soon”.


Apple requires apps to be updated at least once every 3 years, keeping the dependencies of an app up-to-date is not easy




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