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I guess this sort of thing wouldn't happen today with the always-connected, always-phoning-home world we live in.
How about: have a really cheesy wallpapers in the pre-release builds which conveys the message (perhaps with explicit text right in the wallpaper image) that this is not a released build. Also, how about making not-released builds simply expire. The build should know that nobody ought to run it past a certain date. (If such operation is needed internally, it can be rigged with an extension mechanism built into the ex…
I think the critical point of their solution is they don't need to negatively affect users to get them to update.
Also, how does a user who doesn't upgrade notice a change in wallpaper which doesn't take place until after the upgrade? By looking at someone else's desktop which is running the release version?
What if the user has changed to a custom wallpaper, and doesn't remember what the original wallpaper of the leaked OS looks like?
Change the wallpaper. Oh, I thought it was going to be: Prevent users from disabling automatic updates, and require persistent internet connections, and then deploy updates every 7 days, so that users lose 10 or maybe 20 hours a week, waiting for failed patches to retry, and display ominous warning messages like "DO NOT POWER DOWN OR UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTER WHILE WE CONSTANTLY WASTE YOUR TIME WITH BULLSHIT." But I was p…
As much as I'm not a fan of the forced automatic update (even on pro), I think your post is extremely mis-representative on multiple levels.
Include a remotely-activated kill switch; and kill with plenty of warning. What do I mean? I no longer use iPhone because I installed a beta iOS. When the official build came out, I kept "checking for updates" but I never got an update. One day, Apple remotely killed my phone. Manually updating to the production iOS would be fine; but remotely disabling my phone without warning was not acceptable. This is why I refus…
Include a remotely-activated kill switch; and kill with plenty of warning. What do I mean? I no longer use iPhone because I installed a beta iOS. When the official build came out, I kept "checking for updates" but I never got an update. One day, Apple remotely killed my phone. Manually updating to the production iOS would be fine; but remotely disabling my phone without warning was not acceptable. This is why I refus…
People would just remove it. If you can't remove it, then don't buy devices that are crippled in this way.
Include a remotely-activated kill switch; and kill with plenty of warning. What do I mean? I no longer use iPhone because I installed a beta iOS. When the official build came out, I kept "checking for updates" but I never got an update. One day, Apple remotely killed my phone. Manually updating to the production iOS would be fine; but remotely disabling my phone without warning was not acceptable. This is why I refus…
As someone who's never worked for a company that produces commercial software, I'm curious about what he's referring to.