[muglo] Re: Pre-emptive Software ?
- From: Chris <kristoff1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:25:33 -0500
on 1/31/04 1:01 PM, Ilbert Walker at walker@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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
And having IE in OSX constantly ask if you want to make it your default
browser every time you open it up (say, to view a page in IE instead of
Safari or another browser) is less "pre-emptive"? Even when I check "Do not
ask me this again", sure enough next time, IE asks me again.
Chris
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