{"id":40,"date":"2008-03-27T19:53:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T00:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/27\/stop-it-apple-just-stop-it"},"modified":"2008-03-27T19:53:34","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T00:53:34","slug":"stop-it-apple-just-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Stop it Apple, just stop it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!E4092A968B7C1A54!322\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<p>This happened last week and I thought after all the negative blogs and podcasts Apple wouldn&#8217;t do it again.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, I found this update notice on my Vista machine:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tkfiles.storage.msn.com\/y1pfGIzMxWov4RYUQSEfhx8dFp_q3ujqv4n45OLJFZBelFEl2nBLTsSBUECnqopa68n9Ub_ggHw5oI?PARTNER=WRITER\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tkfiles.storage.msn.com\/y1pfGIzMxWov4RiFICAaeSEbt-spQbjh3XwiTW_BqgwyIJh3h1jz17jid28rGbLQ-5pBhHdgBkgB24?PARTNER=WRITER\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want Safari, most people on Windows don&#8217;t want Safari, and trying to trick people into installing it does not help your brand.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an idiotic move by someone in marketing who thinks that this way maybe they can get &quot;market share&quot;, which will involve irritating a lot of users and IT support personnel when stuff quits working.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the only way to stop this from happening is to uninstall iTunes and QuickTime.\u00a0 No great loss since I moved to a Zune 80 with its music subscription.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This happened last week and I thought after all the negative blogs and podcasts Apple wouldn&#8217;t do it again. Sure enough, I found this update notice on my Vista machine: I don&#8217;t want Safari, most people on Windows don&#8217;t want Safari, and trying to trick people into installing it does not help your brand.\u00a0 It&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}