I’m seeing a disturbing trend coming out of Mac-land right now, and it’s starting to piss me off.
As I mentioned yesterday, the slimy push to get Safari installed on PCs via the Apple Software update is poor form, but in and of itself it’s just irritating.  The motives that drove the decision on the other-hand are more disconcerting; but what makes me really angry is the arguments in support of the move coming out of the Mac-head camp.
In a comment on Paul Mison’s post “A Translation of “Apple’s Windows Invasion“, …

Here’s the story I keep expecting to go away, but instead it keeps growing bigger and more controversial by the minute.
Apple has recently begun to use and/or abuse their extraordinary share of the media player market held by iTunes as a jumping off point for spreading the uptake their Safari browser.  This has many PC users seriously miffed, and appears to have fanned the flames of the long-standing operating system war between Mac-heads and PC-users, which has been burning since the 1980s.
When installing iTunes, users are also required to install …

WTF? iTunes v7.5 has added indexing of Ring Tones? An obvious ploy to fuel further consumer expenditure no doubt ­ and a thinly veiled one at that. I call it exceptionally silly. It’s not like I’m going to listen to endless repeats of the sound of my boss calling on the train ride home. Better yet let’s create a play list of my top 10 to help rock me off to sleep at night. Ugh…
I don’t see how this serves the user’s interests in the least ­ – only the …