Apple goes too far in iTunes 8

Re:Apple goes too far in iTunes 8 by snewe on Thursday September 11, 2008 @02:53PM (#301640)

I find that Apple continually installs Safari with iTunes automatic upgrades. Very annoying. They are nicer to me on my Mac.

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Re:Apple goes too far in iTunes 8 by tl on Thursday September 11, 2008 @03:05PM (#301650)

What happens if you rip out Safari on a Mac?

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Re:Apple goes too far in iTunes 8 by ROFISH on Thursday September 11, 2008 @04:59PM (#301762)

Define rip Safari out of Mac. Safari is nothing but a shell for WebKit, the HTML renderer. (+ JS and a lot of other things.) You can probably delete Safari no problem, although it'll probably reinstall with system updates.

You can't pull WebKit out of Mac since it's used in all kinds of programs. The least of which is iTunes for their iTunes Store.

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Re:Apple goes too far in iTunes 8 by run4yourlives on Thursday September 11, 2008 @07:06PM (#301864)

Heh, didn't another company get sued for that kind of crap?

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Re:Apple goes too far in iTunes 8 by tesseract on Thursday September 11, 2008 @08:35PM (#301952)

I think they were sued over iexplore.exe, not mshtml.dll.

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Re:Apple goes too far in iTunes 8 by william42 on Friday September 12, 2008 @02:26AM (#302183)

Actually, they were sued over OEMs and netscape.exe, if I remember correctly.

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Re:Apple goes too far in iTunes 8 by dcurtis on Thursday September 11, 2008 @10:40PM (#302030)

Nothing. If you try to delete WebKit, though, Dashboard and a host of other apps will stop working (Adium, iChat, some aspects of the finder, Mail, etc).

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Re:Apple goes too far in iTunes 8 by petercooper on Thursday September 11, 2008 @04:42PM (#301743)

In terms of operation or in terms of updates? In terms of operation, everything continues to work fine (where everything is not literal, but nothing significant).

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