> Apple employs several dark patterns Bullshit. They show an alert saying something like "A new version of the OS is available." [Update] [Ignore]. That's no

> Apple employs several dark patterns Bullshit. They show an alert saying something like "A new version of the OS is available." [Update] [Ignore]. That's not a dark pattern. It's easy to just Ignore. I have a number of development devices using older versions of the OS and I've never had any problem avoiding updates. > On top of that, what makes it even more egregious is that they make it impossible for me to downgrade That's mostly the fault of the baseband. > Apple constantly nags you to the point where, unless you're constantly looking out for it, its easy to accidentally hit the wrong button. This is just flat-out wrong. > Its sad that they have had to resort to tricking the user to drive their update stats. And this is actually fairly offensive.