Hopefully they will still allow you to hold off on updates and then download them all at once. I currently go to a friends house, drink his beer, and update my Android on his unlimited web juice. I could do the same with a laptop.

However the cloud based SAAS company I support (Workday) updates every weekend and then a major update every so often. Some things are option and others are not.

The centralized and distributive computing models have been fighting it out since day one and especially when the mainframe was king. This is nothing new. I just prefer the distributive model.