>The update cycles are slow. Days in the case of iOS ...
Last time I tried it was hours, although not instant as you might hope.
>What’s worse is that you can’t even count on people accepting the mobile-app updates you send them.
IOS7 tries to help this with automatic updating. Users still have the choice of updating but if you state in the release notes that it's a fix for "data-losing account-compromising privacy-infringing bug" they just might update.
Last time I tried it was hours, although not instant as you might hope.
>What’s worse is that you can’t even count on people accepting the mobile-app updates you send them.
IOS7 tries to help this with automatic updating. Users still have the choice of updating but if you state in the release notes that it's a fix for "data-losing account-compromising privacy-infringing bug" they just might update.