alt Hacker News> It's thus a user choice: if you don't like the automatic updating, you can just not run the application anymore.
That's not a choice. It s just what most apps do these days, but it's the first time I've seen anyone stating this so directly, or trying to frame it as a choice.
(And behaviorally, this makes your product just a SaaS website with extra steps.)
I guess I mean it's a choice in the sense that it's a transparent part of the product that one chooses how and when to use (or not). That's opposed to something running in the background on its own schedule, with its own agenda whether the user is running the application or not.
[Edit: yes, that is kind of the idea. Native version has better features because it can access them.]