Comment by michaelmrose

Actually an application being able to update itself is a security issue and terrible design. Strictly speaking it should have only have write access to say its cache files and a directory where you store downloads.

Its also moronic to have a different update policy per app that is achieved in 35 different UIs.

This is the norm on windows because they were late to the party as far as a central source of software and further managed to make it an unattractive proposition and didn't get much buy in from developers.

Totally aside from the implicit security issue the ui flow is also terrible. Either each of 35 different apps runs their own update checker process in the background wasting your resources and prompting you at annoying times or when you run an app one out of n times it will prompt you to update whereupon you will ultimately have to stop doing whatever you were actually doing and let it update itself and restart.

It is truly amazing that people not only put up with this ridiculous situation but defend this as a feature.

Your system should periodically on a schedule you set update every piece of software you own and never bother you otherwise.