Okay Geek Farm
Dear Google and Apple (and maybe Microsoft and Yahoo)
Red PandaWould you kindly stop attempting to bundle software with what I want to download? Also could you tell me that what you're installing also installs a background program/service that I don't really need?
In the good ol' days with Google, downloading Google Earth was as simple as downloading any other .exe or .msi file. There were no gimmicks to it, it just installed Google Earth and that was it. Now when I try to download Google Earth, Google makes me download this front end software. I guess that's fine. But then I see something like "Google Earth with Google Chrome Installer". Now I'm worried. Are you trying to make me download and use Google Chrome? Is this Google Chrome Installer your own thing like Nullsoft's installer? Why not just call it Google Installer?
And Apple, for the last time, if I wanted to use iTunes (I don't, I'm a Winamp person), would you stop bundling QuickTime? I don't care about QuickTime, QuickTime was never a great media player on Windows to begin with and the only reason why I ever needed it was to play those darned .mov files. Well if you stopped doing that, then good for you. Don't ever release QuickTime for Windows agan unless you can compete with the likes of, oh I don't know, Media Player Classic and VLC.
I understand that you are trying to make installing your programs easier by giving me a frontend and all I have to do is check and uncheck what I want. But in the end all you're doing is wasting another 3 minutes of my life trying to install the program that I want to install, and all you're doing is throwing in these other programs that I didn't want in the first place. Give me the .exe or .msi file please, I don't want a front end.
And specifically to Google and Apple, why do you need your googleupdater.exe and qtupdater.exe or whatever it is? I don't want background programs checking if your software has an update that doesn't really matter. You know, integrate that into the software itself and bug me when I run the program. I don't want random program eating up my CPU cycles if all it's doing is checking the interwebs for updates. And how do I know that that program isn't a security hazard? The more things I have trying to scope the internet, the better chance I have at security problems.
Please, do me and a lot of folks a favor, adopt the KISS method. Give me the .exe or .msi. The front end should be on the webpage itself, not some random program that wants to advertise me all this other crap.
Sincerely,
Red Panda
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