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Constant Updates... I'm so tired of my devices making constant updates. Sometimes the same application on my cellphone updates daily. I have a computer running Windows 8 that upgraded to 8.1 without my permission. There was a blue band across the screen for weeks asking me to update and I always postponed the choice until it gave me no option and updated on it's own. I was trying to access the computer and it locked me out for more than 1 hour while it upgraded itself. Hopefully, when it happens to you, you're not in a hurry looking for something important or you will be waiting around while it updates. |
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No one except the companies knows what's in the script of the updates. It's hard especially with Phones, to accept blindly the updates and not know what they are adding to your unit. There should be some Pre-Scanner that list and outline exactly in detail what these updates is aiming to do. Everything computer based especially in the App world is constantly adding updates, Not all these companies with apps are reputable, and often times people don't go and check out anything about the company that created the apps. Many apps want location, contact and access to your phone/tablet or computers various critical systems. It should not be necessary. But we as a people are more excited about what they apps claims it can do, rather than what the app may actually be doing behind the scenes.
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I don't do computer games, so I don't upload those apps to my phone. It's amazing how people put their bank, credit cards and everything else on a phone and then load apps they know nothing about, but choose it based on some promotional hype. Guess what ???? We don't live in a society that is driven by the level of integrity we assume, and the concept of privacy is an illusion, there is no privacy when everything is backed up on MULTIPLE servers, some of which have very different task, that does not relate to the core published aim they claim. But, 'who's checking" what these various servers really are tasked to do, In house servers may be doing what it has to, to claim its clean, but when the info is shuttled off to secondary servers, no one knows what those servers are doing nor what they are connected to. We are at the mercy of these providers by more means than we even can imagine. Every company is seeking an edge, by any obscure and overt means it can.
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The IT guy in my office said many of the updates are 'bug-fixes' for devices unrelated to your (my) phone or computer. I read a story this weekend that claims the most recent Windows 7 update was a bad one and they recommend uninstalling it.
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