Today I received an update to the Play Store (silently, of course). And the main thing it does is removes the "updates" list in "my apps", replacing it with a page that tells me how many updates I have, a button to install them without even knowing what they are, and another to actually look at them.

The thing that struck me about this is how mind-numbingly dumb this is. If I wanted apps to update without my knowing which ones they were I would turn automatic updates on. So given that anyone who is presented with this option in the first place will have that turned automatic updates off, is it really imaginable that they will want to press the "go ahead and update without telling me what you are updating" button? They clearly didn't analyse the use cases here.

But I guess Google just want people to let everything happen automatically and never think about it, and app updates are no different. So the fact that this leads to a nonsensical Play Store design isn't important to them.