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I can't think of any other reason, but it should at least be optional, as it often is even at the app level - Spotify lets me choose whether to stream on 4G and
by tragic 12y ago
I can't think of any other reason, but it should at least be optional, as it often is even at the app level - Spotify lets me choose whether to stream on 4G and even set a different quality setting. On Android, updates only happen automatically on wifi, but I can manually apply them on a data connection if I want.
Unless it's a customisation as part of some deal with the carriers. I understand that this sort of thing is common in the States.
- mikeash 12y agoApple's philosophy is generally not to expose a setting when a good default will satisfy 90% of the users. For something like this, where most people should have it disabled (being clueless about app sizes and data uses) and some power users might enable it, but clueless people will enable it and then complain about it, Apple will typically not make it configurable. Not that I agree with their position, but that seems to be their approach.