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Terrible Install Practices
by jrronimo on Thu 20th Mar 2008 23:36 UTC
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What the second link mentions is something that has irritated me for a while now about Apple: That, even if you don't have a specific piece of software installed, Apple Updater helpfully tells you that an update for that is available and would you like to download it?

It really feels like a bad business practice: I download Quicktime and only Quicktime. Apple Software Updater DOES NOT offer you security updates for Quicktime alone -- no, that would be FAR too useful. Rather, "Hey! There's a new version of Quicktime + iTunes available!" And now it also tosses Safari into the mix, even if it's never been installed on the machine before.

Further, when you tell Quicktime "No, thank you, I don't want a quicklaunch, desktop or Start Menu icon," running the update brings them all back with no choice not to have them. It's frustratingly poor design for the end-user, but I'm sure Apple will tout all sorts of high download / penetration numbers.

It really makes Apple seem to me like a bad company that is trying to worm its way onto my desktop despite what *I* may want.

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