Remember the fuss over Sony and their sneaky placement of spyware in an audio CD?
Recently we updated our Windows PCs running iTunes to the latest version of iTunes 7 - another attempt to get back the ripping speed lost with the later version. All went smoothly, except there doesn't seem to be any significant speed increase.
This morning when I powered up the PCs I noticed that little Windows message saying a new program had been installed. I looked and found that Apple have created a Windows version of the Apple Update service we're familiar with from OS X. No problem with that, it's a helpful facility.
No, my issue is that I don't recall being asked if I wanted this feature on my PCs. I'm sure it's somewhere in all that small print nobody ever reads but shouldn't Apple have made this crystal clear? Seems like a very Microsoft tactic for the white knights of Apple to pull.
