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by mrpopo 2444 days ago
I'd go one step further and say that most people don't want updates, precisely because updates will potentially break things they rely on, and the Android ecosystem moves so fast that it's almost always the case, at least in my experience. I never had an Android update without having several apps breaking.
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I think you're right and I'd go even further and say most people don't want updates because they know that basically anything could change. I imagine non-IT folk look at computers like appliances, and so I can sympathize because If I woke up every 6 months to find all my appliances interfaces had rearranged themselves, I'd never update anything.
I work in IT and I absolutely loathe Android updates, every time I update my phone the update will break something, or at least the interface for something I use frequently will change again, I absolutely hate it. I still install them because it's impossible to get just the security patches without the rest, but if I could I would go back to the OS my phone shipped with in a heartbeat.