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Weigh that against a critical bug appearing and having your app be useless for a week while awaiting an already-completed update.

At the same time, I understand your feelings about wanting to be in control of updates. (As a user, I'm even upset that Apple doesn't allow the user to roll back.) But when devs can count on every user being up to date, it enables them to push new features more quickly instead of having to write backwards compatibility, fallbacks, etc.

The question of who owns and controls code is a sticky one, and I'm not sure there's an ideal answer; to the extent that there is, I think it varies highly by the nature of the app.



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