|
|
 Top Rated Products |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| News Update | Reviews | Guides |
| |
|
Firefox boss slams Apple for trying to sneak Safari onto Windows PCs |
| 2008-03-23 |
Source:
The Guardian |
| |
|
| |
John Lilly, the chief executive of Mozilla, has attacked Apple for what looks like a deceptive attempt to get Windows users to install its Safari browser as an "update" when it's no such thing. He writes on his blog:
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.
Underneath a screen grab of the Apple Update notification, he adds:
Apple has made it incredibly easy -- the default, even -- for users to install ride along software that they didn't ask for, and maybe didn't want. This is wrong, and borders on malware distribution practices.
It's wrong because it undermines the trust that we're all trying to build with users. Because it means that an update isn't just an update, but is maybe something more. Because it ultimately undermines the safety of users on the web by eroding that relationship. It's a bad practice and should stop.
Lilly just wants consumers to be able to click on updates and get updates, and not get new software by default. He is not criticising Safari, which competes with Mozilla's Firefox, just the approach that Apple is using to try to get it installed.
Of course, Apple's not the only company pull this sort of crap: for example, the last time I wanted to upgrade Adobe's Flash, the bastards tried to stick me with an unwanted copy of the Google Toolbar as well. (It has also been bundled with RealPlayer, WinZip and other products, and Google bundles its Toolbar with Firefox, if you don't watch out. But all of those are downloads, not updates.)
Windows users with iTunes are already getting QuickTime, a bloated, buggy and crippled media player with a history of multiple security vulnerabilities. |
| |
| Most Popular Product Reviews for Windows |
 |
Aimersoft DVD Ripper can rip and convert DVD to all popular video formats including MP4, H.264, AVI, WMV, MOV, RM, RMVB, MPG, MPEG, 3GP, 3GPP, MPG, ASF, FLV, VOB, WMA, M4A, AAC, MP3, AC3, WAV, etc.
|
| |
|
 Most Popular Product Reviews for Mac |
| iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac |
 |
iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac can rip DVD to all sorts of video files and extract DVD audio to various audio files. This DVD Ripper for Mac users can rip DVD to video formats including MP4, WMV, AVI, MOV, M4V, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, FLV, and VOB; and it can convert DVD audio to MP3, WMA, M4A, AAC, AC3, etc.
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
| Related Tags: Convert DVD, Rip DVD, Convert DVD to iPod, Convert DVD to PSP, Convert Video to iPod, Convert Video to PSP, DVD Converter, DVD Ripper, DVD to iPod Converter, DVD to PSP Converter, DVD to Zune Converter, DVD to MP4 Converter, DVD to MP3 Converter, Convert DVD to MP3, Convert DVD to MP4, Convert DVD to MP3, DVD Ripper, Video Converter, iPod Converter, iPod Video Converter, Convert Video to iPod, PSP Converter, PSP Video Converter, Convert Video to PSP, Zune Converter, Zune Video Converter, Convert Video to Zune, MP4 Converter, MP4 Video Converter, Convert Video to MP4, DVD to MPEG, DVD to AVI, DVD to MP3, DVD Player |
|
| |
|
|
|
