[modeless]

> Almost any time you take control away from the user, it's bad.

Right, that's why the App Store has been a huge flop, and its closed model isn't being duplicated by everyone who's making an OS these days as fast as they can run their copy machines.

(Yes, I know that the App Store does prompt users for updates, but in all other respects it's a much more tightly controlled system than PCs, and users love it.)

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Prompting, rather than running a daemon that does it automatically, is the entire point of what I said. Adding functionality isn't taking away control unless you have to color outside the lines to disable it.