I think you may see a serge, at first, in browsers stats as some will be curious about it. It’s the long term to see for sure. Several months it will take to see the real results of this umm approach Apple is taking.

That’s what I was thinking as well. For some reason though it keeps running through my head that the surge is going to be rather large from this, but I don’t think that’s really going to be the case. I doubt it will be more than a 1% increase over last month, but I can’t stop thinking that it could be much more significant than that.

What will be even more interesting would be to see which browser it takes the market share away from: IE or Firefox.

“Kick Apple to the Curb” and utilize these fine applications instead.
Media Monkey (Itunes replacement)works with Ipods
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Quicktime Alternative (Quicktime Player replacement) plays any file Quicktime would, don’t check the MP3 add box though.
[filehippo.com]

For those unfortunate enough to have bought and I-phone sorry your stuck with Itunes for updates of firmware. (Oh Well)

Together we can all send Mr. Jobs a message, “don’t try it buddy”
customers vote with their loyalty.

I’m a Bill Gates fan but I can’t groove to Steve Jobs and his nonsense known as “Apple”, but hey different strokes for different folks. I always say.

Assuming they haven’t already thought about doing something like this, methinks that Apple may have just given all those talented virus writers their new method of distribution – either hack somebody’s software update process or create one that looks very similar. I suspect if Apple has success distributing Safari this way, we’ll see a massive outbreak of viruses pushed this way too. Even more so because my intuition says “the great unwashed” have probably set these software updaters as safe programs in their security software, potentially allowing them to avoid standard scans and usage restrictions.

Initially that didn’t cross my mind, but when Mozilla said that this is bordering on Malware the first thing that I thought about was using this for virus distribution. Guess we’ll see just how good Apple is at writing secure Windows applications.

I would have, but to be honest whenever I install iTunes I also install QuickTime. So I haven’t ever noticed it happening before.

So now who is the bad guy? All these years people talk about Microsoft (no I am not a Microsoft fan boy far from it) how they bundle Windows Media player with their OS for example, and now Apple seems to be doing the same thing where they force their browser on to people who didn’t even know that existed or couldn’t careless about it.

It’s not about what’s being installed on the computer at the factory (like Apple installing Safari before it ships) that’s in question. It’s the fact that they’re using an application that’s supposed to provide updates for already installed programs, to introduce a completely new program. In this case, they are using the Apple Software Updater to introduce Safari, something that the user does not have installed.

I’ve clicked on “Ignore selected downloads” which works fine. Until the next month when the iTunes combo is a new version and therefore now I must be interested in it.

Oh, I also like the way the updater claims that Safari is the fastest browser on the PC. I seem to recall reading several articles recently which point to Firefox still being significantly faster, especially the (in fairness, unreleased) v3.