Do you read descriptions of changes when downloading app updates?

Question

Android

Hi friends!
It is believed that most users of mobile platforms never read descriptions of changes when updating applications installed on their smartphones and tablets. Accordingly, the developer of such applications may have problems with the fact that users are not aware of new features available after updating the application.
It was not possible to google the exact data on this issue on the Internet, so I'm interested in the habrocommunity.

Answer 1

I almost never read!

Answer 2

I read almost all the time!

Answer 3

I usually read. But sometimes they write “some bugs fixed”, after which regular reading becomes boring :(

Answer 4

I only look at screenshots.

Answer 5

I read changelogs and mana only for professional software.
Apps on your phone should be as intuitive as a microwave or a vacuum cleaner.

Answer 6

I always read so as not to miss new useful features that you might not notice.

Answer 7

read always and completely

Answer 8

I usually read.

Answer 9

if I update in the toilet, then I read :D

Answer 10

With nothing to do, you can read. But if everything suits me - why new features, and if it doesn’t suit me, then an analogue is put where everything suits.

Answer 11

for android - I do not read, except for individual applications (superUser for example). Usually they are uninformative, so I don’t waste time.
On the computer (gentoo) I read

Answer 12

I read only applications which may affect the adequacy of work and related to finance.

Answer 13

Very important changes can be shown on the first run after the update. This is what MX Player does.

Answer 14

I read about half

Answer 15

I always read. They sometimes describe interesting "artifacts" for the application.

Answer 16

Probably Habr is not the best place for this question. Here 50-80% of users can read, and in real life - 5%.

Answer 17

I read only for those applications that I constantly use, and for the rest I just update. But it's still a good practice to get information about innovations after the update at the first start.

Answer 18

I always read for applications that I constantly use. I don't read for others.

Answer 19

read periodically for all updates using Changelog Droid

Answer 20

If there is nothing special to do, I read. And if you urgently need to do something on the communicator, and updates come to hand, no. I turn on my communicator sporadically, and each time a whole pack of updates comes out, software, about which you already forget what kind of nuances were in previous versions. In addition, the model is old, it has an antivirus, and while you wait for the updates to be downloaded, any desire to delve into something there is already lost.
H/W: HTC Wildfire
S/W: Android 2.2.1
Programs:
most used: Dr.Web Light, DropBox, Gmail, KeePassDroid, piBalance, Play Market, Speed ​​Test, Wifi Analyzer, Youtube, Internet (i.e. built-in browser).
rarely used: AndChat, Locator, LocatorDroid, SoundHound, Teeter, Yandex.Maps, Yandex.Metro, Barcode Scanner, Yandex Trains.
Functional innovations attract less attention than changes in rights that programs ask for, because everyone has heard of intimidation by viruses that send SMS to premium numbers, spyware, etc. Functional innovations do not attract attention because if the program is liked, it is already installed, then its new features seem to be illogical compared to its already known practical benefits, and even sometimes interfere, increasing the cognitive resistance of the application by changing the user interface, its novelty. Mainly interested in changes in order to reduce errors and obvious blunders, as well as to bring the application in line with the reality of today (for example, a subway map).

Answer 21

In desktop applications = I read, in mobile - there is no necessary amount of statistics for generalization )
For the user to learn about new functions - after the update, you can show a small tour of new functions, like "now we have a button here, it does a cool thing"

Answer 22

What on the android, what on the Windows phone I rarely read. with a windophone, in general, it often turns out that at first I see news from some thread of a softphone / on twitter / facebook / on a vr7forum that Vkontaktik has been updated, or Nokia has released something there, so I read it more often from a computer, then I take the phone and put it on softinka or wait until the market has the opportunity to update