I’ve had this thought for a while, but Patrick’s most recent post about the memory app stunned me out of my silence. Apple doesn’t want developers tinkering with the free program memory, and they made my favourite memory-freeing app, iStat, remove that particular feature a little while ago. I haven’t upgraded on purpose so that […]
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Quick Thought: Skipping iPhone app updates

Sep 10th 2009 by

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I’ve had this thought for a while, but Patrick’s most recent post about the memory app stunned me out of my silence. Apple doesn’t want developers tinkering with the free program memory, and they made my favourite memory-freeing app, iStat, remove that particular feature a little while ago. I haven’t upgraded on purpose so that I can keep my version 1.0 copy of the app, but it sure is annoying to see the iStat update stay there in the App Store.

I’m constantly affronted by this “1” badge above the App Store icon that I know I’ll never be able to rid myself of. It’s funny, too, since the Mac seems to allow me to “skip this update” whenever it notifies me of new ones. Why can’t I “skip updates” on my iPhone, too? I know, I know…I could always just jailbreak and then use SBSettings to free memory, but I don’t want to go there yet!

[I should also add I harbour no ill will towards the cool folks at Bjango who developed the app — I know it wasn’t your fault!]

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