Henry van Megen Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 I use a photo editor and/or vector program once every few months, and just about every time I start your software, there's an update. While it's highly commendable that you update this often, not having an auto-update feature upon startup is inexcusable in 2021. Auto-update upon startup is more than enough; maybe add a 'not now' and 'ignore this update' button) for those that don't want to do it right away. Please do not install another piece of spyware systemtray icon that sits there eating up CPU power and RAM and that downloads the updates and manages my entire Affinity suite; don't be like Adobe, we choose Affinity because we got sick of Adobe. A simple auto-update upon startup is more than enough... it's already better than what we have now! Having to go to your website, manually downloading the new version and having to install it is really tedious when you have to do it EVERY TIME you start a piece of software; forcing this process on your users makes them disable the update checker and miss out on great new features (and you lose sales because they stop talking about those great features to other people). Look at how Discord, Teamspeak, Firefox, Spotify and many others handle auto-updates upon startup.. be (even more) awesome.. When we can go back to having birthday parties with family and friends, I want to be able to talk (nay, BOAST) about the Affinity suite and the cool software you guys make.. .. because I love what you're doing ❤️ TL;DR: not having auto-update on startup sucks; I don't want your awesome software to suck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderings Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 It might be an issue with how you buy and download the software. There are 4 different stores to buy from, Apple App Store, Mac App Store, Windows App store and directly from Serif. Also you do not have to update, if the software does what you need it to do then just skip updating till you feel like doing it. All the apps you listed are very different from the Affinity apps again because of the options of buying and downloading the software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 9 minutes ago, wonderings said: There are 4 different stores to buy from, Apple App Store, Mac App Store, Windows App store and directly from Serif. The first two stores in that list are one and the same, unless I’m missing something! Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 16.7.2 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderings Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 32 minutes ago, Alfred said: The first two stores in that list are one and the same, unless I’m missing something! Both are Apple so probably the same, just one for iPad and one for desktop Mac OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry van Megen Posted May 19, 2021 Author Share Posted May 19, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, wonderings said: It might be an issue with how you buy and download the software. There are 4 different stores to buy from, Apple App Store, Mac App Store, Windows App store and directly from Serif. Also you do not have to update, if the software does what you need it to do then just skip updating till you feel like doing it. All the apps you listed are very different from the Affinity apps again because of the options of buying and downloading the software. Ah.. ok.. that's a bit disappointing.. I don't pay Apple out of principle and I don't sink any money into Microsoft, so the website was basically the only place I could buy it. I'll just disable the notice then... Edited May 19, 2021 by Henry van Megen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry van Megen Posted May 19, 2021 Author Share Posted May 19, 2021 moderators: please close this thread, I'm no longer following it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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