Yes, you heard me right. Apple can be brilliant on their design in one hand and just awful in another. Case in point... the iTunes + QuickTime updater.
More specifically, Apple Updater tool is bad because every time there is an update to iTunes or QuickTime I have to download both pieces of software in full. That ranges between 50MB and 70MB. Then there is the whole reboot thing which I just don't get it.
And to makes things worse, today, the stupid updater asked me to install Safari! I don't have Safari and I didn't ask for Safari. Apple is leveraging their monopoly on music players to push for a Web Browser.
Can you imagine if Microsoft was leveraging a monopoly to gain market share with a web browser what would happen?
I am of the belief that Netscape sealed their own fate by making the horrid decision to rewrite the browser from scratch. Without a release they let Microsoft coast to a victory. Netscape was waaay out in front and they blew it. Microsoft had little to do with the demise.
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- 3/18/2008 5:18 PM
October, 2007