I think your severely mis-interpreting what I'm saying. > Meanwhile, are you sure that you 100% definitely want non-technical users who plug in the device and

I think your severely mis-interpreting what I'm saying. > Meanwhile, are you sure that you 100% definitely want non-technical users who plug in the device and never want to take any further action, to ever enjoy the benefits of any automatic upgrade they don't need to know or touch or think about? You want to monopolize upgrades for hackers, and deny them to 99.999% of world's population, right? I never said nobody else can upgrade, or that having cloud services (for things like upgrades) available are a bad thing. What I want is a device that doesn't assume it will be connected to the cloud, and doesn't lose any usability if it's not connected to the cloud. I think the best option would be a product that has both: Cloud services, and standalone services, and "home-cloud" services that I can install on my own home server. > The default settings should have an option "Stay on latest version. Upgrades will be applied automatically." You as a hacker can turn it off to instead get the behavior you suggest. I absolutely agree. By default I think auto-upgrades are a good thing. But I want to have the final control to turn those off if I want. I actually really like your idea for how upgrades should be applied. I don't think it's the opposite of my desires though.