Bundleware sucks
October 13th, 2005
For various reasons, I downloaded Quicktime 7 today. I absolutely
hate the Quicktime player and it was my first experience of Apple
during the Windows 95 days and certainly explains why I haven’t
purchased an Apple product ever and probably never will. Hey, guess
what - it’s bundled with Itunes 6 (Not worthy of stupid
capitalization).
Perhaps
the only reason I downloaded Quicktime
was because I need it to play some multimedia content I have. Of
course, they have to attempt to bundle it with yet another media player
(Itunes), get my e-mail address, send me Quicktime spam every 2 weeks,
music spam every week and tons of spam about Apple. It also decided to
close down Firefox whilst I was in the middle of something and wanted
to
use up my system resources by loading Quicktime automatically on
startup (I love you Microsoft AntiSpyware). Where’s the option not to
load at startup?
Not being enough, it
also needs to take over my desktop with desktop shortcuts, quick launch
and system tray icons. Luckily I was wary enough to download the
standalone edition of Quicktime and didn’t give away my e-mail address
or download Itunes or I’d have to spend even more time getting rid of
the useless junk Apple have put onto my computer and set up a spam
filter and a dozen new spam rules.
Apple isn’t alone - RealPlayer
is pretty bad (at least they used to but I’m staying away from
installing RealPlayer again even if it means I’m susceptible to
security flaws). All I wanted was a media player to play content on the
BBC and you get a spyware/adware download manager and junk all over
your player. Flash Player (which almost everyone has and needs these
days on the web) bundles Yahoo! Toolbar last time I checked. WinZip and
Sun’s Java bundle Google Toolbar.
People complain all the time
about free download programs installing IE toolbars and other random
junk all the time (”spyware”). I really don’t see how these programs
with the oh-so-helpful bundles are any different.
P.S. Yahoo has an anti-spyware program. Guess what? It hijacks your homepage and sets it to Yahoo when you install it.
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I’m forced to agree with you on every issue.
Now i’ve used Quicktime, Realplayer, mplayer, Winamp and various other players. None are as good as Windows media Player, i can’t understand why people bash it so, it’s library functions are great, and it’s not too processor intensive, it also has a fanastic GUI.
Quicktime and Itunes are definatly the contenders for the worst though.
I’m forced to agree with you on every issue.
Now i’ve used Quicktime, Realplayer, mplayer, Winamp and various other players. None are as good as Windows media Player, i can’t understand why people bash it so, it’s library functions are great, and it’s not too processor intensive, it also has a fanastic GUI.
Quicktime and Itunes are definatly the contenders for the worst though.
I’m forced to agree with you on every issue.
Now i’ve used Quicktime, Realplayer, mplayer, Winamp and various other players. None are as good as Windows media Player, i can’t understand why people bash it so, it’s library functions are great, and it’s not too processor intensive, it also has a fanastic GUI.
Quicktime and Itunes are definatly the contenders for the worst though.
I’m forced to agree with you on every issue.
Now i’ve used Quicktime, Realplayer, mplayer, Winamp and various other players. None are as good as Windows media Player, i can’t understand why people bash it so, it’s library functions are great, and it’s not too processor intensive, it also has a fanastic GUI.
Quicktime and Itunes are definatly the contenders for the worst though.
Think i found a bug there..
The thing I hate the most about iTunes being bungled (mistake intended) with QuickTime, is the download size… it wanted me to download 100+MB just to play a game that used QuickTime movies. Now considering I’m limited to 400mb of downloads every month thanks to my shitty ISP, thats a large chunk of downloads gone on something I’ll never use.
Here is a secret, I don’t have a firewall, anti-spyware or anti-virus software installed on Windows, and guess what! I don’t get any problems! ZoneLabs bundles other crap with their firewall now, even if you pay them for the Pro version. I don’t use Internet Explorer and I don’t install anything I can’t trust.
And It also keeps my 1.5gb of memory clean