Comments on: Apple Sneaky, Microsoft is No Angel, Either

By: Apple is Just as Sneaky as Microsoft, Dumping Software on Your Computer | CloudAve

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:58:13 +0000

[...] case obviously unnecessarily software. It’s also not the first time, I wrote about a similar experience early last [...]

By: Apple is Just as Sneaky as Microsoft, Dumping Software on Your Computer | Zoli’s Blog

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:14:05 +0000

[...] obviously unnecessarily software. It’s also not the first time, I described my similar experience early last year. Back then I also wrote: Apple fans are a religious cult who came in hordes to [...]

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Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:19:26 +0000

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By: What’s wrong with the blogosphere, part 1 | Ed Bott’s Windows Expertise |

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:09:20 +0000

[...] Zoli Erdos comments on my remarks at ZDNet about Apple’s evil updater, which tries to push Safari on Windows users who previously installed iTunes or QuickTime. Here’s how he starts off: I’ve been observing an annoying trend on TechMeme for a while now: when a good discussion happens over the weekend, obviously some writers will miss it – then they sleep on it, come back to it a few days later and TechMeme picks it up as a new theme. [...]

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:50:20 +0000

Joh,

I think you misunderstood Zoli’s point. It was Ed Bott who said Apple were wrong – just look at Windows Update as the shining example of how to do things right.

Zoli and I, when we finally stopped laughing at such a ridiculous assertion, both pointed out that Microsoft are just as culpable as Apple in their update practices.

Both are wrong to use opt-in and Ed makes himself look silly by trying to grab the moral highground on this one.

By: Joh

Joh — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:47:43 +0000

MS was wrong with the Live installer
That doesn’t make it not wrong for Apple to offer Safari in an “update” that takes advantage of Windows Update