Tech Smartly

I was writing my next blog post ( I’ve been rather busier nowadays, and will continue to be so for another couple of weeks), when I looked at recently cleaned up desktop. I had one picture on it, the first picture on my computer. Unfortunately, I did not realize at all it was a picture. Why? Because it had the quicktime icon on it! I didn’t remember putting a video file on my desktop, so this was very puzzling. Since I have a semi fresh install, I don’t have any pictures at all, except on my back up drive, which I don’t look through since I don’t need anything. It didn’t take long to realize who was at fault here: Apple.

Why must you always seduce people with your nice looking products? I admit, Macs are better at some things with windows, but again there are some drawbacks to macs. Not only that, but it seems like people forget that OSX, despite being all pretty is intuitive, is still a closed down OS using proprietary formats. My knowledge of Mac is quite small however. I only ever use macs when I go to the mac store to browse to anti-mac pages such as here, or here, even not everything I link to is entirely true. I’ve done this about 5 times, and one out of those five times the mac crashed on me. Of course, it could have just been a chance encounter, but aren’t they supposed to just work? Anyway, enough Mac-bashing. I don’t want people emailing me saying how wrong I am. I don’t like macs, and I’ll never use one without malicious intent. The fact is, Apple seems hell-bent on getting everyone to use what they think is best. You must use their ideas of what they think is good for you. For a grandma sitting at home, this isn’t all that important. But for a person who wants to make things work the way they want it to, it becomes a problem. So tell me Apple, why must you extend your influence to my windows partition?

I have a pretty clear Idea how this happened. I was installing iTunes, which installed quicktime. There was some little check box or list that I didn’t looked completely through. But why did Apple decide that it should force upon me it’s terrible software by automatically checking one item among so many? Granted, it’s not a big a problem as it wanting to install safari. in fact, it has a very simple solution. But that’s not what the problem is. I’m not complaining that Apple changed PNG’s to open with some program that crashes when I try to use it. I’m complaining about the fact that Apple is trying to feed me it’s own slow software on my computer, try to deceit me and hide from my watchful eyes. This is poor on Apples part. I want iTunes so I can sync my iPod (with rockbox!), and it also has to install quicktime, and change my settings so that it tries to open the pictures. Hopefully songbird can become good enough for my daily usage soon, so that I can rid myself almost completely from iTunes. I however still have DRM on some songs which I need to get rid of. Apple earns my big red mark of shame, which does not actually exist, but you get my drift.