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One of the hardest things for tech companies to do is get people to update their software. It generally benefits everybody - quality of user experience typically increases and then in turn people speak more highly of the products. Updates can still be inconvenient. "But it works fine why update it?"

Apple has answered this question by putting the pill in the marshmallow - give them more emojis.
 

C DM

macrumors Sandy Bridge
Oct 17, 2011
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Because updates generally have fixes (and often security related ones too) as well as other improvements in them?
 

aristobrat

macrumors G5
Oct 14, 2005
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I think most of my friends and family update just to make the notification bubble on the Settings app go away. :)
 

Lappen71

macrumors 6502
Nov 16, 2012
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One of the hardest things for tech companies to do is get people to update their software. It generally benefits everybody - quality of user experience typically increases and then in turn people speak more highly of the products. Updates can still be inconvenient. "But it works fine why update it?"

Apple has answered this question by putting the pill in the marshmallow - give them more emojis.

12 security vulnerabilities

https://threatpost.com/apple-fixes-12-vulnerabilities-in-ios-10-2/122428/
 
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