Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple QuickTime 7.6.4 Update includes Additional Functionality
Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple QuickTime 7.6.4 Update includes Additional Functionality
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple QuickTime 7.6.4 Update includes Additional Functionality
- From: Rex Sanders <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:10:27 -0700
Apple's also pushing iPhone Configuration Utility to all Windows
QuickTime/iTunes users, which doesn't even make sense:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/09/apple-pushes-unwanted-enterprise-tool-to-windows-users.ars
And it's getting blogosphere ranting:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/14808/apple_shovelware_problems_again_iphone_configuration_utility
Comment on the Ars Technica site by "zelannii" says that updating Apple
Software Updater makes the "stop bugging me" features actually work, so you
can permanently decline un-needed junk from Apple.
Is Apple trying to make enterprise Windows sys admins hate them?
-- Rex Sanders, USGS
At 3:13 AM +0000 9/25/09, GARITY, TOM wrote:
>An IAVA put out against QuickTime 7.6.2 recommends upgrading to version
>7.6.4. During testing of version 7.6.4, it was discovered that QuickTime
>now requires "Apple Application Support" to be installed. In researching
>this application, it looks like it supports features in iTunes 9 for iPhone
>and iPodTouch devices, but the purpose for its inclusion in QuickTime
>doesn't appear to be documented.
>
>There is nothing that we could find identifying that this new functionality
>is now a required component of QuickTime, or why it is needed for basic
>media playing capability in QuickTime as that is all we are using QuickTime
>for. A call to Apple Tech Support ended with a developer for QuickTime
>stating the application is required for QuickTime and there is no way to not
>have it installed.
>
>I'm looking for information to go back to the Government IA folks with to
>justify why this new functionality is required in QuickTime. My other
>alternative it to recommend removing QuickTime from my environment and
>letting Windows Media Player or another application assume the media playing
>capabilities that QuickTime was handling.
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