Apple tricking Windows users into installing Safari.

[Alan]

What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong. It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that's bad -- not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole Web.

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[RamboPreacher]

why in the world did they even THINK that I wanted safari on my pc? why would they send me an "update" notice for my quicktime that says that I need safari? this is ridiculous and has, for me, passed the line. I will be removing quicktime, I had already removed itunes. bah. and you all thought MS was bad? bah.

[MacUser]

Wow.. you mean companies can't encourage people to use better products? hehehe.

Seriously.. How many times have I downloaded something and it requires me to download something else free to use it? Hello.. Google, MS, other third party companies.. the web is calling.


Safari 3.1 now earns a nice 95/100 (an A+) on Acid3 test. The speed with which the Safari team is dedicated to making corrections and appropriate fixes is astonishing to me, especially considering the competition.

See here
http://webkit.org/blog/167/webkit-gets-an-a-on-acid3/

[Alan]

I downloaded it to try it and don't really like it so far, I'll stick with Firefox any day.

The main difference is that Apple is pushing this out with there "Apple Update Software" so to many it appears to be an update. Most things you download and install it tells you, I'm going to install this as well unless you uncheck it (which I always do). The only product I can think of that didn't allow you to uncheck it was when it was bundled in the Adobe Acrobat Reader update, and on some machines I had to uninstall Acrobat Reader, download the latest version and install it instead of running the update.

I don't believe that any company (yes I'm including Adobe in this one) should include new software (toolbars, etc...) as an updated to their software.