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Hey Apple, why not update my software when it's time to restart?
- kennywinker 15y agoBecause I hate when my pc does that.
- rickmb 15y agoBecause OSX runs mainly on laptops, where people tend to put their computer in sleep mode rather than turning it off (often several times a day). Same tends to go for most iMac users. Only users of big old desktop boxes still tend to boot their computer on a daily basis.
- steventruong 15y agoI don't restart or shut down my computer that often. Keep in mind your usage habits are not that of everyone else and it makes sense not to enforce updates when restarting. As a matter of fact, someone else was complaining about this for Windows not too long ago on another post here on HN. Dude was pissed because he needed to access his computer and instead had to wait for the computer to finish installing all these various updates before it would boot into the OS. Clearly the user experience could be refined on that but at the end of the day, I'm perfectly happy with the way it currently works.