it is a huge pain in the ass. They bundle it with quicktime and hide it if you aren't paying attention when you download and install. I've see issues where I deleted it and it was back a week later.
Mine keeps auto updating every week, it seems, without doing anything noticeable other than waste bandwidth and installation time, and demanding a reboot.
I only use it once a month or so to put music onto my ipod, it's much more annoying and intrusive than it should be.
I heard that Apple keep a bunch of small "improvements" and features lying around ready to be implemented so that if someone makes a 3rdparty app which works with the way iTunes manages files, they can just roll out a new iTunes version to break compatibility with the 3rdparty apps under the guise of an "update".
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I heard that Apple keep a bunch of small "improvements" and features lying around ready to be implemented so that if someone makes a 3rdparty app which works with the way iTunes manages files, they can just roll out a new iTunes version to break compatibility with the 3rdparty apps under the guise of an "update".
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As shady as that sounds I remember hearing something about that a while back. Of course something like that is hard to prove so nobody can really do anything about it.
kp its probably finding its way back onto your machine through Apple Software Update. If you have it on your machine set its preferences to never update. Its probably due to the fact that iTunes and Quicktime updates are bundled together inseperably in the auto-updater.
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I only use it once a month or so to put music onto my ipod, it's much more annoying and intrusive than it should be.
I heard that Apple keep a bunch of small "improvements" and features lying around ready to be implemented so that if someone makes a 3rdparty app which works with the way iTunes manages files, they can just roll out a new iTunes version to break compatibility with the 3rdparty apps under the guise of an "update".
I heard that Apple keep a bunch of small "improvements" and features lying around ready to be implemented so that if someone makes a 3rdparty app which works with the way iTunes manages files, they can just roll out a new iTunes version to break compatibility with the 3rdparty apps under the guise of an "update".
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As shady as that sounds I remember hearing something about that a while back. Of course something like that is hard to prove so nobody can really do anything about it.