Sneaky Safari Updater opinion roundup

The big thing to me is the fact that the updater *keeps* asking me to install it all the time! If it only did it once, and then I untick it and it doesn't ask me again- fine. But all the time, the updater keeps appearing, asking me to do the same thing. Thats just wrong.

Wow. Just wow. I am flat out blown away by the ofuscation, obliviousness and abject self-justification in TUAW's original post. I had always thought this site had some measure of perspective about Apple but this post fulfills every stereotype about Apple fanboyism. When Microsoft does it, it's bad. When Apple does it, it's fine, why are you complaining, Apple software is good for you, you should be grateful Apple is pushing its great products onto you. I am simply stunned by some of the pathetic excuses endorsed by TUAW. Among them:

1) Two wrongs make a right. I love this one. Even if what Apple does is bad, hey, Microsoft does it even WORSE. So there. Shut up and don't complain about Apple. Because you know, Microsoft is even more evil.

2) Apple software is so good, who care if you didn't seek it out? It's good!

3) Because Apple announced it was going to do this, it's therefore OK. Um, does at TUAW see the huge yawning gap in logic here? If a practice is bad, announcing you're going to do it doesn't make it any better. Right. I'll buy that, along with the bridge spanning the East River.

TUAW mentions but never responds to Mozilla's point that a so-called "updater", which is commonly understood to mean a program that keeps software you already have installed up-to-date, now adds software that you don't have installed. I guess even TUAW was too embarrassed at trying to twist the English language and justify how it's OK for an updater to add new, unrelated software to the system.

Good job, TUAW, for fulfilling every caricature about Mac zealotry!

How has Apple not yet gotten sued for monopolistic behavior for bundling Safari with OS X and now this? If Microsoft can get sued for bundling IE and Windows Media Player with Windows, shouldn't Apple be sued for bundling Safari and QuickTime with OS X? Especially given that they control software AND hardware, making it a true monopoly? Just wondering.

Well, Mactards, isn't the all righteous Apple supposed to be better than the sooo evil Microsoft? I guess we have the answer to that question now, haven't we? Apple is as lowly as Microsoft is. LOL.

OH waaahhhhhh wahhhhhhhh with the jeers. I use 4 different browsers for 4 different types of things. I dont give a flying fig if Apple updates THEIR browser automatically. In Fact I wish ALL the browsers would do it.

Much ado about nothing.

Yeah, it came as a surprise, but a pleasant one, it must be said, and I'll explain for why...
(That's ancient English anyway, for you Grammar Nazis)

I've just dried my eyes over the recent discontinuation of support for my favourite Netscape Navigator browser when the thought occurred to me that it could be a good time to give Safari a try.

I honestly suspected for a second that Apple Inc actually have bots placed in my head when I saw the download prompt - "is this Reality Distortion Field more than a journalistic metaphor" I thought.

Well, I decided it was just convenient coincidence and downloaded it anyway. Will test it later this week and decide what to do with it.

What people didn't notice is that it also works the other way around. I only got Safari installed on Windows (don't need a media player), but whenever I run Apple Software Update I also get offered iTunes + QuickTime (besides QuickTime and an update for Safari).

As an owner of 12 Macs over the last 19 years, and an owner of an Apple ][+, I think this is embarrassing and I wish they hadn't approached it this way.

Any one who blindly downloads whatever is presented is stupid. You watch where you drive; you watch what you eat:
why would you not watch what you download.

The reaction to this just shows how desperate the media and other software companies are to find fault with Apple.

To compare this with malware or virus is ignorant because nothing is hidden.

If you do not want it... uncheck the box! Duh!

Cheers:
Bob

3 pages of comments, i'm lazy, the microsoft watch guy says it's not a big deal now:

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/apple_software_update_is_ripe_not_rotten.html