[CaptainBern]

The article did not mention that as far as I can tell.

>The app checks for the update every 5 minutes or when the user activates the app.

>Normally, when the app detected the update - it downloaded it and stopped the 5 minutes interval until the user installed it and restarted it.

To me this reads as them downloading the update unprompted (as they mention their issue with the previous updater was that it would prompt the users every 5 minutes, which would be solved by just not checking every 5 minutes).

Either way, whatever the bug and its effects are, my gripe is that their conclusion is to add a way for them to remotely force-updates. As opposed to just notifying once or any of the other hundred ways to handle auto-updates that don't involve you remotely forcing an update.

Edit: the founder has confirmed in the comments the app does download without user confirmation, so my original point still stands.