Apple often does the right thing^tm. Many things Apple does are copied by other companies later. There are good copies and bad copies. But not everything Apple does is good. And sometimes the wrong thing^tm is copied also. Take the recent software update issue as an example. My mother just came to me and said: I installed $randomSecurityUpdate and now I’ve got the Yahoo tool bar on my computer. Can you please remove it? Sure. I can remove it. But this is still bad, as it discourages my mother from installing important security updates on her computer in the future. Adobe is one of those bad players, too. If you download Acrobat Reader, you also install a number of other applications, if you’re not careful. Bad. I wonder why Apple and Yahoo and all the other vendors, who are doing this, compare apples and oranges here. What makes you think I might possibly want a Yahoo tool bar in my Firefox browser, just because I install a security update for another totally unrelated application?
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