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Is Apple’s Jealousy Of Microsoft Surfacing?

Started by Corvida · 10 months ago

Apple has been a huge bully this week and to be quite frank, I think it’s because Apple’s jealous.
The Safari Fiasco
Apple has been making headlines, most notably on Techmeme, over the fact that they are now pushing their products onto Windows machine’s ... Continue reading »

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  • Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

    1 year ago

    Color me crazy, but that's the way our Apple updates have always come in. They toss everything in there, and they have these neato little checkboxes that you can UNCLICK if you don't want something. In fact, I went ahead and didn't install today's update, NOT EVEN THE SECURITY UPDATE. There's this cute little button that allows me to just not install ANYTHING.

    Sheeple is my word of the day. If people are too lazy and/or stupid to read what they are installing and then click or unclick depending on their needs, then they shouldn't be allowed to have a computer in the first place.

    Then again, AOL in its heyday was reliant on people knowing they HAD to install that CD that arrived in the mail, right?

    /rolling of eyes

    Sorry. I can't get all het up about this one.
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  • Blesson

    1 year ago

    Frankly speaking apple is losing the trust of consumers by using such dirt tricks
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  • Kirk

    1 year ago

    Cyndy... you are correct. Also, don't let that rant by John Lilly fool you... his anger has nothing to do with the "trust of the users" as he protests and everything to do with money. Mozilla raked in almost $57 million last year from Google thanks to that default Google search bar in Firefox. Every customer that Apple can switch to Safari from Firefox means less money for Mozilla. See http://tinyurl.com/yqy223 for more info on Lilly... me thinks the gentleman doth protest too much.
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  • Janet Tokerud

    1 year ago

    I'm an Apple fan for sure. I love their software and hardware. They raise the industry. But, I want to see Apple to the right and smart thing all the time. In this case, Apple doesn't get to put new programs into your updates list. If they marked them as suggested maybe that would be OK. I would like to see Apple defend themselves on this one. Get one of the young social-software-aware execs to explain why Apple is doing this.

    The only excuse I can imagine is that Apple thinks iTunes and Safari enhance and are now integral with iLife. Maybe they can have a little ad box in the dialog for what they wish you would try.

    Mostly, Apple is blowing it here. I don't agree that you can expect the user to know which things to uncheck. That's like registrations with the all the permission to market to me checkboxes checked.
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  • ms danielle

    1 year ago

    i have a macbook that i work on. but just yesterday i had to do something on my pc and saw the update you're talking about. i thought it was weird for a second but didn't really think too much about it... it was more confusing than annoying at that point since i don't run safari on it. i can see how it would bug the average user...
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