I subscribe to the RSS feeds of Macupdate.com and Versiontracker.com. If you are not familiar with these two sites, they are both great sites for finding downloadable shareware and freeware programs for the Mac. Versiontracker has software for other platforms, too.
It is really getting annoying when I look through the feed and see the same program 5 days in a row because a minor update has been made. Do we really need version 1.2.11 of a program and then 1.2.12 the next day, and then 1.2.13 the day after that?
Can’t the developer just wait until version .3 instead of .2.4 followed by .2.5 a few days later? If that minor update is sooooo important than the version of the software should change from 1.2 to 1.3 (for example), or why not 1 to 2?
Recently, I mentioned a program called VirtueDesktops in a blog I wrote. I think there were five updates released last week, or at least it sure seemed that way!
Do I, or you, have to download and install all of these minor updates? Of course not. My question is why do they have to be released in the first place? Sometimes these minor updates can cause more harm than good.
If Apple did this with OS updates we’d probably be several every day. Yes, Apple does the 10.3.9 thing, but as far as I’m concerned the 10 is more like the name of the software. If Apple used a “normal” numbering/naming system we’d be up to OS 14 by now and Leopard would be 15.
Anyway, I think I am starting to ramble on so I’ll stop. Leave your comments below.
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