ARR and Mac

[Laraul]

I'm not talking about the build of their computers. I'm talking about how they treat pretty much everyone else.

Like slipping other programs into the iTunes install without notice, multiple times.

Devising programs/hardware that are designed to lock or hinder your device if you don't pay attention to the ad it is displaying.

Treating your hardware as theirs, even after you buy it. This is most visible in the iPhone/iPod Touch Jailbreak. On that note as well. They've even applied for a patent that would/could let them "disable" a jailbroken iDevice.

These are just some of the reasons I won't give a penny to Apple for anything.

What programs has Apple slipped into the iTunes install?

What hardware do they lock down?

How do they treat your hardware as their own?

Apple's own comment on jailbreaking mentions none of this. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3743

[ispano]

What programs has Apple slipped into the iTunes install?

What hardware do they lock down?

How do they treat your hardware as their own?

Apple's own comment on jailbreaking mentions none of this. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3743

1. Safari, MobileMe and there was another. Safari however was the big one because they abused the Security Updates feature of auto installing to push it, so if you had Security Updates set to auto install, you magically ended up with Safari.

2 and 3. All their hardware. They only want you doing what they want you doing with their hardware. It's currently legal to Jailbreak an iPhone, but Apple still tries to stop people from doing it. If someone wants to modify a device they bought, let them. If they go do something illegal beyond that, then Apple can bring the hammer down.

[Molly_Millions]

What programs has Apple slipped into the iTunes install?

/cough

Quicktime

/cough

I despise Quicktime. It puts a stranglehold on my media, not good when my pc is the heart of my recording studio. I'll never buy an ipod for music because I'd be forced to use iTunes/Quicktime.

[Altena]

I despise Quicktime. It puts a stranglehold on my media, not good when my pc is the heart of my recording studio. I'll never buy an ipod for music because I'd be forced to use iTunes/Quicktime.

What kind of media do you record if you don't mind me asking?