An enormous snake, stiffly winding a long-accustomed route; scales of laquered brass, stained-glass eyes, and some kind of motive fire, burning within.
With each mobile operating system generation, the process to submit applications to the vendors' stores has become more and more … we'll say elaborate.
The mechanical giant snake was impressive at first: you have to summon it by slowly recitating the release notes, and then it embarks on its mysterious journey, unless of course it becomes stuck in the desert zone because of a certificate problem.
Rebooting the release snake is kind of unpleasant, unless you are into ovoviviparity, but even if you are, wearing the protective gear and having to follow the cleaning process was tedious, once the novelty has worn off.
The worst part of it is that nobody could be sure that the next version would not be worse.