Some apps on my phone will pop up with a dialog containing the release notes the first launch after an update. I find myself dismissing them almost immediately since
- due to automatic updates, I don’t go into an app aware of updates and anticipating changes
- I have a task in mind when opening the app and just want to get straight to it
It’s not always obvious where to bring up the release notes again once they are dismissed. So I wonder, do developers include such popups with the expectation that many users will stop to read them, are most users just as hasty as I am, or both?
Quite the opposite. I don’t update my apps at all and only read patch notes to determine whatever to update or not, usually not. As long as the app is working it doesn’t need or deserve to be updated just to fuck up the UI again.