[muglo] Pre-emptive Software ?

Rogers Cable was the notorious example of course, of sneeky pre-emptive 
billing for the unsuspecting consumer.
With Apple OS 9 and the iMac the default browser was MS Explorer, which 
the novices had to use,  unless they discovered by exploration the 
Systems Preferences panel where this could be changed .

With OS X users are denied even that possibility !  Only by a lot of 
time consuming investigation, did I discover how the select one's own 
choice of Internet browser and mail programme.   One is forced  to 
enter Safari's preferences, and there to deselect Safari ( in it's own 
preferences!!!) and then choose an alternative.  Similarly with Apple 
Mail.

An arcane piece of Apple programming logic - or just pre-emptive 
marketing ?
Caveat emptor ?

from Bewildered Blue Eyes :-)
(still working my way through the eccentricities of the Panther beast!)

Ilbert 


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