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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So, there are two ways of updating a default app: individually (like
non-default apps), which currently requires an Ubuntu One account; and
as part of the system, which doesn't.

Has anyone done a cost-benefit on having two methods that differ in this
way? I guess the cost is confusion that if your Ubuntu One account gets
lost/deleted, you'll see updates for some apps sometimes require an
Ubuntu One account and sometimes don't. And in not knowing whether you
need to update them at all when you're about to install a system update
anyway. The benefit might be that if you urgently need an update to a
particular default app, you can get it without updating the whole
system; though that won't reduce the size of the next system update.

There are probably other technical issues that I have no idea about. So
this isn't a UI design question, it's a store architecture question.
(And almost certainly not an ubuntu-download-manager bug: ubuntu-
download-manager is mechanism, not policy.)

The design currently assumes that if you aren't signed in to Ubuntu One,
you won't see any app updates at all: "Sign in to Ubuntu One to receive
updates for apps." <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#presenting-
mobile> So, this does require design changes either way: to make that
message refer either to "other apps", or to something like "non-default
apps". I can't specify which until the store question is answered.

** Package changed: ubuntu-download-manager (Ubuntu) => software-center-
agent

** No longer affects: unity8 (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: ubuntu-ux
       Status: Triaged => Incomplete

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434151

Title:
  [system-settings] the user should not need to sign into Ubuntu One in
  order to update core apps

Status in Software Center Agent:
  New
Status in Ubuntu UX:
  Incomplete
Status in ubuntu-system-settings package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Apps that come pre-installed with Ubuntu Touch should not require the
  user to create an UbuntuOne account in order to receive updates to
  those apps.

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