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by Anamon 819 days ago
Another example for how preventing users from doing rollbacks is a terrible practice. Even if it's not your application's fault, users may have very good reasons to revert an update, if only temporarily.

This also bothers me on Android. Sometimes, an app update may break something and prevent me from using it. But Google doesn't allow me to reinstall a previously published version from the Play Store. If I don't have to (or can't easily) do without that application until a fix might be released, my only option is to find an older release on some shady mirror site.