It's Apple being Apple. I don't think apps that truly don't need updates are possible, because platform APIs will change, and if they read or write files, or t

It's Apple being Apple. I don't think apps that truly don't need updates are possible, because platform APIs will change, and if they read or write files, or talk to anything on the network, other apps will change and compatibility will need to keep up. But we shouldn't require updates for no reason, and we should probably be way more careful about messing with those platform APIs. Android and I assume iOS is much better than something like Linux, where "platform APIs" don't even exist and things are provided by stacks and stacks of distro, version, and customization specific things, so there's no reason stuff shouldn't keep working for years.