Mozilla CEO Criticizes Apple's Stealth Safari Update
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| Lilly doesn't have a problem with Apple using its software update utility to
| keep its users up-to-date with iTunes and QuickTime, or any other Apple
| software they may have installed. The problem for Lilly is that even if you
| don't have Safari installed, Apple pushes the update to users and checks
| the "install" box by default.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143752-pg,1/article.html
Week in review: Reading Apple's crystal ball
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| The Apple device, which hasn't been determined yet, would come preprogrammed
| with a certain amount of music that, after a period of time--perhaps six
| months or a year--would roll into a subscription type of service plan, the
| source said.
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| Apple would be in for a fierce legal fight, should it ever undertake such a
| strategy, warns David Pakman, CEO of rival digital-music service eMusic.
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| "It smells like classic Sherman Antitrust Act to me," Pakman said. "I only
| know what I've read, but the plan sounds very similar to the tying practices
| Microsoft used with Windows (and) Explorer. And Microsoft is still paying the
| penalties for that one."
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http://www.news.com/Week-in-review-Reading-Apples-crystal-ball/2100-1083_3-6235117.html?tag=nefd.top
Mac Sales Jump 60 Percent in February, Analyst Says
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| Apple's recent Mac growth has been huge, growing a whopping 60 percent in
| February 2008 over the same month last year.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143560-pg,1/article.html
Diversity is good, so good luck to Apple with Macs. But Jobs snubbed Firefox
before with a no-Firefox pie chart (duopoly), and that's just arrogant and
disrespectful.
Yesterday:
Apple pushes Safari on Windows via iTunes updater
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| Apple has started offering Windows users its Safari 3.1 Web browser through
| the same online updater it utilizes for iTunes and the QuickTime video
| player.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9900456-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Related:
Apple faces suit over iPod-iTunes link
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| As if its options woes weren't trouble enough, Apple Computer Inc.
| said Friday it is facing several federal lawsuits, including one
| alleging the company created an illegal monopoly by tying iTunes
| music and video sales to its market-leading iPod portable players.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_on_hi_te/apple_lawsuits
EU takes aim at Apple over iTunes
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| Norway, a European country that is not in the EU, is battling Apple
| for the same reason. In January, it said the computer and software
| giant must liberalize its music download system by October 1 or
| face legal action.
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| Pressure on Apple has been building, with consumer rights
| organizations from Germany, France, Finland and Norway recently
| agreeing a joint position in their battles against iTunes.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070311/wr_nm/eu_apple_dc
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