Apple sneaks Safari 3.1 into Windows updater
Friday, March 21st, 2008There’s a bit of rumbling today over whether Apple is right or wrong in installing Safari by default via iTunes’ updater. I really get a kick out of the people defending this one.
Despite what some people are arguing, the defaults are used in a program are a big deal. It is for MSN; it is for Yahoo; it is for Google; it is for Apple. I don’t care who is doing it, setting defaults to expand market share by “default” is rude. It doesn’t matter if it’s Safari or a toolbar. Rude is rude.
There are other ways for Safari to grow market share. This isn’t a good one.
And, yes, I have Safari installed on my system. That’s not what this is about.