[CS-FSLUG] NI: Yahoo, Apple and Google are Abusing your Trust

[Timothy Butler]

This guy doesn't get it. Rather than looking at QuickTime and iTunes  
as two separate products, he should look at it as one product with  
two frontends (which is true). Really, you have one product  
(QuickTime), which is used via QuickTime Player or iTunes. Moreover,  
the combined package of two front ends, is roughly equivalent to the  
single applications known as Windows Media Player or Real Player,  
since they both have the jukebox integrated into the standard viewer  
(which I think is annoying... QuickTime+iTunes works more in the  
grand *nix tradition of one purpose for one app).

As a side note, I'd also add that it is clearly noted that you will  
be downloading both when you go to Apple's site, so it isn't Apple  
"infecting" PC's as this blog implies. :-)

     -Tim

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On Jun 18, 2005, at 3:43 PM, 國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar) wrote:

> Newshound writes "The idea of bundling software has been around for
> quite some time. For years AOL links and icons were bundled with just
> about everything. Here though it was merely icons and links  
> attached to
> more frivolous applications. The recent trend with Malware force
> installing itself is much worse. This happening hidden from view,  
> during
> a regular application's install has angered just about everyone who
> discovered it. But now companies are targeting the basic applications
> that make your computer work. They are abusing the trust built up with
> the fact that you are not likely to pay attention when installing  
> basic
> applications from reputable companies."
>
> http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/17/1320249
>
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