I can only tell you in my case, I have received the same nag 3 times during the past 5 days, all involving the same Numbers doc. Every time I told it no.
I’ll add that this perhaps is part of a broader theme of Apple determining that their advice (let’s for now assume good intentions) are more important than our free choice to run systems we paid for the way we want. Recall, just as an illustration, how often folks show up in places like this looking for ways to get rid of update badges and notifications to updates that leave apparently no good choice (or even end up doing the opposite of what users might expect), whereas MacOS X used to offer simply this:
I’d claim there has been somewhat of a “shift of priorities” at our favorite fruit company and so perhaps there is also, in reaction, just a reduced tolerance for prodding these days.
As an aside, it’s interesting to me that there is a related, but much broader discussion going on right now about the overall ethics and efficacy of “nudging” ever since the Thaler and Sunstein book came out back in 2008.
