Mar 21 2008
No, Apple, I don’t want Safari
To be fair, Apple makes a great mp3 player,and a pretty good phone. But their iTunes software, on Windows at least, sucks. Big time. It’s slow, buggy and places TONS of restrictions on music.
But since you need iTunes to load music into your iPod and iPhone, lots of people have this piece of shit on their PC. And Apple sees an opportunity here.
The latest update for iTunes offers an upgrade to Safari, Apple’s web browser. You get the same Apple Software Upgrade dialog box, but instead of seeing another update to iTunes or Quicktime, which I don’t really want on my PC either, you see an already-check box for Safari 3.1.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t use Safari currently - it’s just there.
Now really, this is bullshit. I don’t want to use iTunes and Quicktime as is…and I certainly don’t want to use Safari. Pushing the browser on users via an iTunes update is ridiculous, and similar to tactics used by spyware vendors.
Look, Apple, if we wanted you bloated 22MB web browser we’d download it on our own. Fact is, you have shit market share in the browser market for a reason…Firefox and even IE is a better alternative.
Stick to dumping your also-ran software on Mac users. We don’t want your shit here. Thanks.
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Have you actually tried Safari 3.1, or are you just talking shit…?
Yup, I have. Sure, it works fine, but at the end of the day it is not as versatile as Firefox, not as convenient as Maxthon, and not as familiar as IE.
But you miss the point - Apple shouldn’t be peddling its software through iTunes updates like a spyware vendor. It’s pathetic and deceptive.