[muglo] Pre-emptive Software ?
- From: Ilbert Walker <walker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: MUGLO <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:01:42 -0500
Rogers Cable was the notorious example of course, of sneeky pre-emptive
billing for the unsuspecting consumer.
With Apple OS 9 and the iMac the default browser was MS Explorer, which
the novices had to use, unless they discovered by exploration the
Systems Preferences panel where this could be changed .
With OS X users are denied even that possibility ! Only by a lot of
time consuming investigation, did I discover how the select one's own
choice of Internet browser and mail programme. One is forced to
enter Safari's preferences, and there to deselect Safari ( in it's own
preferences!!!) and then choose an alternative. Similarly with Apple
Mail.
An arcane piece of Apple programming logic - or just pre-emptive
marketing ?
Caveat emptor ?
from Bewildered Blue Eyes :-)
(still working my way through the eccentricities of the Panther beast!)
Ilbert
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