MS did exactly the same thing to the DMI standardization effort (DMTF) a few years back, as a stalling tactic until their "CIM" model came along. The last thing they wanted was an open, cross-platform standard management interface.
Except that Apple doesn't have a decent word processor, or presentation package. Don't try and pretend that Pages or Keynote are worth the bytes required to store them on the hard drive. They're cheap relative to Office, at $79, but OPenOffice (or Joffice on the Mac) puts iWork in the weeds.
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MS did exactly the same thing to the DMI standardization effort (DMTF) a few years back, as a stalling tactic until their "CIM" model came along. The last thing they wanted was an open, cross-platform standard management interface.
Itanic is dead. RIP. Game over. Hasta La Vista (no pun intended).
Game, set, match. Etc., etc., etc...
Except that Apple doesn't have a decent word processor, or presentation package. Don't try and pretend that Pages or Keynote are worth the bytes required to store them on the hard drive. They're cheap relative to Office, at $79, but OPenOffice (or Joffice on the Mac) puts iWork in the weeds.
I just tried it on OS X Tiger, both by manually checking for updates, and by launching iTunes fresh, and neither showed the update as being available.