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I'm not clear on if we're to score on the content of updates, or their method of distribution. Responses in this thread seem to be a mix of the two.
> For myself, I am grateful that updates appear to continue for the Touch. I wonder how long they'll continue?
> On the other hand, I really dislike that updates are pressed on users without choice. Log in to get a newly-purchased book, and whammo you've got an update that *may* not have positive consequences for your system or how you like it to function.
> The updates take sooooooo long. Even just syncing your desktop takes sooooooooo long it's kinda irrritating.
> I dislike the increasing focus on merchandising in the UI. I know Kobo is a business, I know the readers are an adjunct to book sales, but frankly I want them out of my face. I bought my Touch to read books, not as a bookshop app, and I wish Kobo would decide which it's going to be, and stick with it. (It was my choice to buy a Kobo, sure, but it's become much more of a persistent billboard than the device was when I originally bought it.) If Kobo needs the book sales to justify the device, then give us a version that doesn't pimp us every chance it gets. The market being what it is, I doubt it woud be any (much) more expensive.
> I dislike that most updates seem to arrive already broken. Where's the beta-testing or QC?
> I like some of the new features they've introduced over the last few updates (like the evolving shelf feature), and evidence that they listen to user feedback. Sometimes the development seems so slow, though. t comes in little drips rather than substantial flow.
> I'd really like to see substantial changes, when they come, be options or customisable, rather than 9as it appears) being a case of "some people have said they would like this better, so we'll make it the standard for everybody". That's a recipe, it seems to me, for annoying a huge number, maybe a majority, of your users.
So. I have no idea how to boil all that down to a single score.
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