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 …