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I just set my apple updater to "never". I am tired of them trying to put Safari on my machine. I'll run it when I want. They've just lost too much credibility with me. They try and bill themselves as the antithesis of Microsoft, but they are just as arrogant. We are stuck with Microsoft. Now my attitude has changed towards Apple, I'm stuck with them but will live with them more on my terms.

I'm surprised Apple made this move and didn't even back down from it completely after releasing the update to the Updater recently. I guess they are very set on getting Windows users to use Safari.
I would say they either don't realize what a terrible impact this has on their otherwise pretty good public image, or they think it's worth the few people that will try Safari and continue to use it. Personally I think they have very little hope in making Safari popular on Windows, so this is an awful mistake.

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