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I find continuous delivery to the mobile app stores to be rather silly and wasteful, updating your app every two weeks for example consumes vast bandwidth espec

I find continuous delivery to the mobile app stores to be rather silly and wasteful, updating your app every two weeks for example consumes vast bandwidth especially for people with automatic updates on. The benefits of changing apps on such a quick basis makes it unlikely customers will even notice changes or be able to adapt to what's new or different. Being able to delivery quickly is not the same as having it be automatically useful, just as being able to easily add some new functionality is not the same as having that be useful or desirable to the end user.

chaosphere2112 9y ago
On the bandwidth end, both Android and iOS do use incremental updates ([1], [2]); if the changes are something that you would be releasing eventually anyway, you're not wasting any bandwidth, and are instead loadbalancing it over multiple payment periods. [1]: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/07/23/new-play-store-tools-help-developers-to-shrink-the-size-of-app-updates/ http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/07/23/new-play-store-tools... [2]: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1779/_index.html https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1779/_index...
perlgeek 9y ago
In such cases, you can practice Continuous Delivery to a beta program, where users explicitly sign up to live on the (b)leading edge. That way you get some of the benefits of CD, but you can still do relatively infrequent releases to the "real" app store.