I think it's just because they don't like ecosystem competitors. Reason I say that is because they don't seem to have taken any action against any video players other than Chromecast, Nexus Player, or Apple TV. You can still buy an Nvidia shield, which does basically the same thing as Nexus Player. The only reason Roku is still available is because their installed base is simply too big for Amazon to ignore, so Amazon is already paying them anyways.
Although I have Amazon Prime, I got so annoyed with the "this is free but this isn't" mentality that I just stopped using it entirely. When I first bought a Fire TV, I returned it because the main users (my parents) kept thinking they needed to pay for everything because Amazon displays their content front and center while never showing Netflix in its search results, which makes Roku a better choice (i.e. when you search for something in a Roku, it will show you which of your providers have it and how much it costs to watch; Netflix always being free.)
FYI, I'm pretty sure that, by the screenshots of the new Apple TV, that that's the way it works, too. It shows all the sources equally.
Weird, that really doesn't make sense. As long as you're watching Amazon Prime video, why would they care that you're using an LG smartTV to do it? They want you to fumble around with an additional piece of equipment that needs its own separate remote just so you can watch their video?
Because they had to commit to a HUGE production order to whowever is producing the hardware, and now has warehouses full of CRAP they can't sell. And they probably want to update the hardware but can't, unless they simply take a write-off on the earlier units and landfill them.
Amazon seems to be throwing a tantrum in this case, and I can't understand why
Because they are scared of the new Apple TV.
Note that this move came RIGHT after the new Apple TV was announced. They only included Chromecast as a diversionary measure that happened to coincide with their business interests in getting their horseshit to sell.
I don't know that it's legally anti-competitive. It's not like Amazon is preventing people from buying competing products or locking those products out, it's just isn't stocking them. Can a store be required to sell certain products?
Depends on who it is. If it's the Apple App Store, and the people complaining are Slashdotters, then you would think the answer to your question would be "Yes".
But the real answer is, of course, "No.". Their Store, Their Rules.
I admit, I did not notice the OS X part and went straight for the "Mac." Mac's not bad about malware, I bought 62 iPads recently just for that reason. (They're not for me, they're for a fairly poor local elementary school that I've sort of adopted since I sold my business. I keep their whole IT department up to date and help out the solitary IT staff that they have.)
D'oh! However, Mac (even OS X) does get a share of exploits (and resultant malware) these days. That's a good thing. It means the platform is being inspected more. It means it's growing, perhaps you can say maturing. I find it fine, I just haven't taken the time to acclimate to it. I'm not really an OS zealot or anything. If we want to be equally pedantic, I don't know of any Windows specific viruses that have struck lately. By Windows, well, I mean just the kernel - much like Linux is just the kernel.;-) That and hardly any viruses are being released any more. Not by strict definition. Mostly we see trojans and other malware.
As an aside, Apple's very cool about giving discounts on hardware. The iPads were a trivial expense. If they could get a decent laptop in the right price range then I'd buy it for them. As it was, I ended up getting them all Lenovo laptops a couple of years ago. They got to keep them at the end of last year and they got the iPods this year when they returned to school. I'll examine the landscape in a year and a half. I currently replace every two years and allow the kids to keep the older equipment. I can write it off but I don't bother, I've generally already reduced my tax burden as far as possible with donations to mainstream groups like Red Cross, Heifer International, and Habitat for Humanities.
Ah well, I completely missed the OS X bit.;-) (I'm not one to double down on my own mistakes. Well, unless I'm fucking with someone for my own amusement.) Mac's are hardly secure and I think we know that - even you know that. Nothing is secure but Mac's do a pretty good job. iOS seems to be pretty tight too. I'm a Linux user so I don't really worry about anything as I tend to stay pretty much within the safe zone most of the time or do the rest in a burnable VM. Hell, half the time I don't have an OS installed - not in use. I just use a Live USB stick. I've generally got 16 to 32 GB of RAM. I can load several OSes into RAM if I really wanted.
Well, now I feel like the perfect idiot for trouncing on you like that! SORRY!!!
But seriously, OS X *is* really virus-free. It may not stay that way as Marketshare increases; but since it came out in 1999/2000, there seriously haven't been even but about 3 Trojans, and no self-replicating viruses, on OS X. So, I have to (respectfully) disagree with your statement about OS X not being secure.
I think there are still some Windows viruses being produced (admittedly, not nearly as much as in the XP-days); but probably not more than a few hundred per day at this point...;-)
Major Props to you for your generosity to the schoolchildren!!! You REALLY deserve to be lauded for doing that! Most people would just take the money and have a nice life...
Because it's for a philanthropic (and educational) purpose, you might contact Apple to see if you can get an extra-special discount on something like some factory-refurb Macs. Apple Refurbs are warranted same-as-new (you can even get AppleCare for them), and it might be mutually beneficial for Apple (and you) for them to be able to "unload" some Refurbs, depending on what, and how many, you need. And even if Apple won't just donate them, I am sure you can get a pretty good deal on them. Beats trolling eBay and Craigslist!
Free as in beer. Free as in source is available. Not free in that you can take their proprietary bits and include them in your distributed changes. So, not entirely free but close enough for anyone but a zealot.
Cool, thanks! I'll give it a spin. Anything to get out from under the "Don't Get Caught Doing Anything Evil" company (Google).;-)
You'll probably try to weasel out of it. Those goalposts won't move themselves.
LOL! The Yolk's on you, Egghead!
Apparently, you didn't read very carefully. THOSE ARE MacOS (as in "Classic") VIRUSES from the LAST CENTURY!
And you just FURTHER proved my point; because NONE of them attack OS X.
I guess I wasn't specific enough; but my mistake was not noting that I was referring to the Macintosh OS that has been sold EXCLUSIVELY for the past FIFTEEN, no, SIXTEEN YEARS. I ASSUMED that EVERYONE would understand THAT, FFS!!!
Now bitch about my capitalization, bitch. I dare you.
Fucking Slashtard.
So, let me reiterate: There are ZERO OS X Viruses (other than a few TROJANS, which NO OS can STOP). Period. Zero. Zip. Nada.
Nailed it. I've yet to install an Apple update and think to myself, "yeah, that was worth it." Each and every one brings a steady and noticeable decline in performance and usability. Features I used on the reg would disappear, only to have a toggle buried off somewhere in a menu that, itself, was hidden or moved. Apple's software really is all bluster and no balls.
Oh, you wanna compare the "feature rearranging/removal" to what happened Windows 8 compared to Windows 7??? Or to what happened in Server 2012 vs. Server 2008 R2?
And you have the temerity to bitch about a feature moved from one MENU to another in the SAME App?
Yes, that frustrates me too; but name ONE Software package that does NOT occasionally move (and/or remove/change) a feature or two? Not excusing it; but I note that, except for a few specific periods/versions, iTunes has remained pretty damned stable in its core feature-set and their placement (more the former than the latter, i'll admit).
I was so excited when I got my iPhone 4. It's old, I know. Everything worked so well.
Now... itunes has changed so much I can barely use it. It's always losing playlists, stopping play because it sees a cloud icon when the downloaded version is right underneath it, etc. Don't get me started about the hidden File Edit menus. My iphone barely works anymore. Browsers slow, maps is a joke, switching tasks takes a while.
The last thing in the world I want to do is update itunes and IOS. Each time it gets more and more unusable, each time the experience stops 'just working'. I won't upgrade either again. Too scared. Too much time to remake all those playlists. Too worried about the lag from the new OS or insanely strange UI of itunes.
It's too bad we can't just stick with a version that works, but this 'one size fits all' approach isn't working great.
Funny, ANONYMOUS COWARD, I have had both iPhones and iTunes (both on OS X and Windows 7) for quite a few generations, and have NEVER lost a Playlist, nor have I had it stop playing because of, well, pretty much anything.
As for the "hidden" menus, yes that freaked me out when it happened a few years ago, but then, I spent about 1/2 a second on Google, and found the way to turn them back on. Problem solved. And through several updates, that Preference has remained set the way I want it (to Show Menus). In fact, iTunes is VERY good about NOT disturbing previous Preference-Settings.
On the other hand, my WIndows 7 work laptop decided yesterday to play "Hide the Volume Control"; and after over an HOUR of Googling and trying this and that, I STILL can't get access to change that "System Icon" 's status to "On", DESPITE the fact that, not only am I a Local Admin, but a Domain Admin.
You wanna talk about shitty software? Then you need not look farther than the Windows OS!
This whole thread seems to be a lot of Apple apologists blaming MS for the bugs in Apple's code. It's pretty strange and amazing to watch the level of die hard brainwashing Apple has pulled off for their average to below average products.
...and a lot of ANONYMOUS COWARDS blaming Apple for... well, EVERYTHING.
And it's pretty strange and amazing to watch the level of Apple-Bashing that happens almost exclusively by ANONYMOUS COWARDS.
One reason people do not keep their Quicktime up to date is because the updater for it keeps offering unrelated shit so the reaction is "wtf is this, I'll just close this". Heck, they might uninstall the whole thing that keeps bugging them, leaving behind Quicktime (which then never gets updated)
Stupid companies should stop using automatic software updaters as tools to push other things to the user.
The only thing that the iTunes installer offers, other than iTunes, is iCloud for Windows, and that defaults to "no", IIRC. I think it offers to update/install QuickTime if it is not installed, but again that is OPTIONAL.
The problem with iTunes is how often they modify the UI or key functions. At my peak iTunes usage I probably only used it once a month. Every single time there was a new update waiting, and every time I allowed the update it would modify the UI in some non-intuitive way, and it would take an onerous amount of time trying to figure out where they moved a particular command. So eventually I only updated when a particular function stopped working entirely. Honestly, if you have to refactor your UI every time you add a feature, start from scratch and design something more scalable.
They had a time when that was definitely true; but now it has slowed down considerably, and in the past couple of years, the UI/feature set has only changed a little, even with the addition of Apple Music capabilities.
I think the last trailer I cared about on Apple.com was the one for Phantom Menace. No one makes their online video content dependent on Apple these days. Most stuff is a link to Youtube.
And now that there's YouRedTube, how long before EVERYTHING on there has embedded, NON-SKIPPABLE Ads?
You mean there's no supported and regularly updated version of Safari for Windows. Just because Apple stopped supporting it on Windows doesn't mean it was completely wiped out of existence.
In fact, people running older unsupported versions of Safari actually fits right into the vibe of what this article is all about
I ran Safari for Windows on my work Windows 7 PC until there were so many incompatible websites that I had to give up and use Chrome instead. I used Safari for Windows mainly because it was the ONLY browser that would resist infections by every damned toolbar and other malware crap that sneaked past Avast! !!!
I was VERY sorry that Apple gave up on Safari for Windows. I think we can blame Google for that. And no, Chrome is NOT a superior browser; just a newer one.
iTunes attempts to install a fuckton of useless shit, and let's face it, most people are just going to click 'lolwut okay'.
I don't know what your definition of "Fuckton" is; but it looks like, in addition to the Application itself, it installs 2 Services, plus, if you let it, QuickTime and/or iCloud for Windows.
If you want to see a Fuckton of useless shit, just install the software than comes with any HP scanner or printer!
Do newer versions of iTunes uninstall Quicktime when you upgrade? If not, it seems likely that a lot of people would have it installed for no reason when they could easily reduce the attack surface.
I believe iTunes for Windows OFFERS to install/update QuickTime, but like the iCloud for Windows install, it's optional.
AV scanners on Android would be for Trojans intentionally placed in things you buy. It doesn't fit the conventional profile of malware and certainly isn't comparable to the Windows situation.
The virus scanners that Linux and MacOS have are to clean WINDOWS viruses.
No, OS X has plenty of viruses now. Linux has had worms but they mostly targets servers.
Why is windows vulnerable to viruses, for example? Other OSes doesn't have that - to the extent that they don't have virus scanners.
Other OSes do get viruses. There are AV scanners for Mac, Linux and Android etc. Windows just gets most of the action because it's used by more people.
There are AV scanners for Macs for two reasons:
1. Because Windows Switchers can't fathom a computer without a Virus Scanner.
Quick, everyone, ditch windows. Apparently it is the culprit here. Besides, everyone knows quicktime runs better in linux. Quicktime? Please. The last time that tripe touched anything I own was like ten years ago. Realplayer is another heap of dung.
I blame Microsoft, more than Apple.
Qucktime and Java, were Microsoft's biggest threats at one time, so Microsoft did little to embrace such tools, and actively went to making them suck on the windows environment. Forcing Apple and Sun (now Oracle) to get creative on distribution of its software. Microsoft could had realized that these competing software was popular on their platform, and it may be a good idea, to allow Apple and Sun/Oracle to post updates straight to Microsoft so it would be part of the standard Windows update. But they didn't go that route, so Both Apple and Sun/Oracle have a separate update tool installed on each PC, That will go off at unexpected time, and also be that one process that you don't need so you remove it.
Microsoft not only didn't embrace QuckTime, they actually STOLE the Source Code from a Contractor that was working on some QuickTime stuff, while simultaneously changing the rules about Plugins in a way that was SPECIFICALLY intended to stop QuickTime from working on Windows.
Apple's Response: They changed the way the QT Plugin worked, and had the new version posted within 24 hours of MS's little gambit.
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You do realize Amazon already has a video app for iPhones and iPads, right? And that the app lets users watch Prime video in their iPhone or iPad?
Amazon could pull the app if they wanted to... funny how they haven't done so.
Apparently, they aren't re-submitting for TVOS (the new Apple TV's OS), though.
Not all of them are.
All of them that would otherwise be listed on the NYSE are.
I think it's just because they don't like ecosystem competitors. Reason I say that is because they don't seem to have taken any action against any video players other than Chromecast, Nexus Player, or Apple TV. You can still buy an Nvidia shield, which does basically the same thing as Nexus Player. The only reason Roku is still available is because their installed base is simply too big for Amazon to ignore, so Amazon is already paying them anyways.
Although I have Amazon Prime, I got so annoyed with the "this is free but this isn't" mentality that I just stopped using it entirely. When I first bought a Fire TV, I returned it because the main users (my parents) kept thinking they needed to pay for everything because Amazon displays their content front and center while never showing Netflix in its search results, which makes Roku a better choice (i.e. when you search for something in a Roku, it will show you which of your providers have it and how much it costs to watch; Netflix always being free.)
FYI, I'm pretty sure that, by the screenshots of the new Apple TV, that that's the way it works, too. It shows all the sources equally.
Weird, that really doesn't make sense. As long as you're watching Amazon Prime video, why would they care that you're using an LG smartTV to do it? They want you to fumble around with an additional piece of equipment that needs its own separate remote just so you can watch their video?
Because they had to commit to a HUGE production order to whowever is producing the hardware, and now has warehouses full of CRAP they can't sell. And they probably want to update the hardware but can't, unless they simply take a write-off on the earlier units and landfill them.
Amazon seems to be throwing a tantrum in this case, and I can't understand why
Because they are scared of the new Apple TV.
Note that this move came RIGHT after the new Apple TV was announced. They only included Chromecast as a diversionary measure that happened to coincide with their business interests in getting their horseshit to sell.
I don't know that it's legally anti-competitive. It's not like Amazon is preventing people from buying competing products or locking those products out, it's just isn't stocking them. Can a store be required to sell certain products?
Depends on who it is. If it's the Apple App Store, and the people complaining are Slashdotters, then you would think the answer to your question would be "Yes".
But the real answer is, of course, "No.". Their Store, Their Rules.
Plus there are probably some guilty people who weren't convicted.
Oh, I doubt that. Not with her attitude.
How about adding up all the time served by the people who got false convictions, then doubling it.
That is EXACTLY what I logged in to Post (minus the Doubling; but that's great idea!)
I admit, I did not notice the OS X part and went straight for the "Mac." Mac's not bad about malware, I bought 62 iPads recently just for that reason. (They're not for me, they're for a fairly poor local elementary school that I've sort of adopted since I sold my business. I keep their whole IT department up to date and help out the solitary IT staff that they have.)
D'oh! However, Mac (even OS X) does get a share of exploits (and resultant malware) these days. That's a good thing. It means the platform is being inspected more. It means it's growing, perhaps you can say maturing. I find it fine, I just haven't taken the time to acclimate to it. I'm not really an OS zealot or anything. If we want to be equally pedantic, I don't know of any Windows specific viruses that have struck lately. By Windows, well, I mean just the kernel - much like Linux is just the kernel. ;-) That and hardly any viruses are being released any more. Not by strict definition. Mostly we see trojans and other malware.
As an aside, Apple's very cool about giving discounts on hardware. The iPads were a trivial expense. If they could get a decent laptop in the right price range then I'd buy it for them. As it was, I ended up getting them all Lenovo laptops a couple of years ago. They got to keep them at the end of last year and they got the iPods this year when they returned to school. I'll examine the landscape in a year and a half. I currently replace every two years and allow the kids to keep the older equipment. I can write it off but I don't bother, I've generally already reduced my tax burden as far as possible with donations to mainstream groups like Red Cross, Heifer International, and Habitat for Humanities.
Ah well, I completely missed the OS X bit. ;-) (I'm not one to double down on my own mistakes. Well, unless I'm fucking with someone for my own amusement.) Mac's are hardly secure and I think we know that - even you know that. Nothing is secure but Mac's do a pretty good job. iOS seems to be pretty tight too. I'm a Linux user so I don't really worry about anything as I tend to stay pretty much within the safe zone most of the time or do the rest in a burnable VM. Hell, half the time I don't have an OS installed - not in use. I just use a Live USB stick. I've generally got 16 to 32 GB of RAM. I can load several OSes into RAM if I really wanted.
Well, now I feel like the perfect idiot for trouncing on you like that! SORRY!!!
;-)
But seriously, OS X *is* really virus-free. It may not stay that way as Marketshare increases; but since it came out in 1999/2000, there seriously haven't been even but about 3 Trojans, and no self-replicating viruses, on OS X. So, I have to (respectfully) disagree with your statement about OS X not being secure.
I think there are still some Windows viruses being produced (admittedly, not nearly as much as in the XP-days); but probably not more than a few hundred per day at this point...
Major Props to you for your generosity to the schoolchildren!!! You REALLY deserve to be lauded for doing that! Most people would just take the money and have a nice life...
Because it's for a philanthropic (and educational) purpose, you might contact Apple to see if you can get an extra-special discount on something like some factory-refurb Macs. Apple Refurbs are warranted same-as-new (you can even get AppleCare for them), and it might be mutually beneficial for Apple (and you) for them to be able to "unload" some Refurbs, depending on what, and how many, you need. And even if Apple won't just donate them, I am sure you can get a pretty good deal on them. Beats trolling eBay and Craigslist!
Free as in beer. Free as in source is available. Not free in that you can take their proprietary bits and include them in your distributed changes. So, not entirely free but close enough for anyone but a zealot.
Cool, thanks! I'll give it a spin. Anything to get out from under the "Don't Get Caught Doing Anything Evil" company (Google). ;-)
Give Opera a try. It's actually really nice. It's built off the Chromium source now but too divergent to be folded back in, probably.
Thanks for the tip!
I didn't really like Opera on the Mac; but that was a long time ago, and in a Galaxy far, far away...
Time to try it again, eh? Is it still non-free?
Well, seeing as you asked...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You'll probably try to weasel out of it. Those goalposts won't move themselves.
LOL! The Yolk's on you, Egghead!
Apparently, you didn't read very carefully. THOSE ARE MacOS (as in "Classic") VIRUSES from the LAST CENTURY!
And you just FURTHER proved my point; because NONE of them attack OS X.
I guess I wasn't specific enough; but my mistake was not noting that I was referring to the Macintosh OS that has been sold EXCLUSIVELY for the past FIFTEEN, no, SIXTEEN YEARS. I ASSUMED that EVERYONE would understand THAT, FFS!!!
Now bitch about my capitalization, bitch. I dare you.
Fucking Slashtard.
So, let me reiterate: There are ZERO OS X Viruses (other than a few TROJANS, which NO OS can STOP). Period. Zero. Zip. Nada.
Got it?
Nailed it. I've yet to install an Apple update and think to myself, "yeah, that was worth it." Each and every one brings a steady and noticeable decline in performance and usability. Features I used on the reg would disappear, only to have a toggle buried off somewhere in a menu that, itself, was hidden or moved. Apple's software really is all bluster and no balls.
Oh, you wanna compare the "feature rearranging/removal" to what happened Windows 8 compared to Windows 7??? Or to what happened in Server 2012 vs. Server 2008 R2?
And you have the temerity to bitch about a feature moved from one MENU to another in the SAME App?
Yes, that frustrates me too; but name ONE Software package that does NOT occasionally move (and/or remove/change) a feature or two? Not excusing it; but I note that, except for a few specific periods/versions, iTunes has remained pretty damned stable in its core feature-set and their placement (more the former than the latter, i'll admit).
I was so excited when I got my iPhone 4. It's old, I know. Everything worked so well.
Now... itunes has changed so much I can barely use it. It's always losing playlists, stopping play because it sees a cloud icon when the downloaded version is right underneath it, etc. Don't get me started about the hidden File Edit menus. My iphone barely works anymore. Browsers slow, maps is a joke, switching tasks takes a while.
The last thing in the world I want to do is update itunes and IOS. Each time it gets more and more unusable, each time the experience stops 'just working'. I won't upgrade either again. Too scared. Too much time to remake all those playlists. Too worried about the lag from the new OS or insanely strange UI of itunes.
It's too bad we can't just stick with a version that works, but this 'one size fits all' approach isn't working great.
Funny, ANONYMOUS COWARD, I have had both iPhones and iTunes (both on OS X and Windows 7) for quite a few generations, and have NEVER lost a Playlist, nor have I had it stop playing because of, well, pretty much anything.
As for the "hidden" menus, yes that freaked me out when it happened a few years ago, but then, I spent about 1/2 a second on Google, and found the way to turn them back on. Problem solved. And through several updates, that Preference has remained set the way I want it (to Show Menus). In fact, iTunes is VERY good about NOT disturbing previous Preference-Settings.
On the other hand, my WIndows 7 work laptop decided yesterday to play "Hide the Volume Control"; and after over an HOUR of Googling and trying this and that, I STILL can't get access to change that "System Icon" 's status to "On", DESPITE the fact that, not only am I a Local Admin, but a Domain Admin.
You wanna talk about shitty software? Then you need not look farther than the Windows OS!
This whole thread seems to be a lot of Apple apologists blaming MS for the bugs in Apple's code. It's pretty strange and amazing to watch the level of die hard brainwashing Apple has pulled off for their average to below average products.
...and a lot of ANONYMOUS COWARDS blaming Apple for... well, EVERYTHING.
And it's pretty strange and amazing to watch the level of Apple-Bashing that happens almost exclusively by ANONYMOUS COWARDS.
Come out an fight like a human, or GTFO.
One reason people do not keep their Quicktime up to date is because the updater for it keeps offering unrelated shit so the reaction is "wtf is this, I'll just close this". Heck, they might uninstall the whole thing that keeps bugging them, leaving behind Quicktime (which then never gets updated)
Stupid companies should stop using automatic software updaters as tools to push other things to the user.
The only thing that the iTunes installer offers, other than iTunes, is iCloud for Windows, and that defaults to "no", IIRC. I think it offers to update/install QuickTime if it is not installed, but again that is OPTIONAL.
The problem with iTunes is how often they modify the UI or key functions. At my peak iTunes usage I probably only used it once a month. Every single time there was a new update waiting, and every time I allowed the update it would modify the UI in some non-intuitive way, and it would take an onerous amount of time trying to figure out where they moved a particular command. So eventually I only updated when a particular function stopped working entirely. Honestly, if you have to refactor your UI every time you add a feature, start from scratch and design something more scalable.
They had a time when that was definitely true; but now it has slowed down considerably, and in the past couple of years, the UI/feature set has only changed a little, even with the addition of Apple Music capabilities.
I think the last trailer I cared about on Apple.com was the one for Phantom Menace. No one makes their online video content dependent on Apple these days. Most stuff is a link to Youtube.
And now that there's YouRedTube, how long before EVERYTHING on there has embedded, NON-SKIPPABLE Ads?
You mean there's no supported and regularly updated version of Safari for Windows. Just because Apple stopped supporting it on Windows doesn't mean it was completely wiped out of existence.
In fact, people running older unsupported versions of Safari actually fits right into the vibe of what this article is all about
I ran Safari for Windows on my work Windows 7 PC until there were so many incompatible websites that I had to give up and use Chrome instead. I used Safari for Windows mainly because it was the ONLY browser that would resist infections by every damned toolbar and other malware crap that sneaked past Avast! !!!
I was VERY sorry that Apple gave up on Safari for Windows. I think we can blame Google for that. And no, Chrome is NOT a superior browser; just a newer one.
iTunes.
iTunes attempts to install a fuckton of useless shit, and let's face it, most people are just going to click 'lolwut okay'.
I don't know what your definition of "Fuckton" is; but it looks like, in addition to the Application itself, it installs 2 Services, plus, if you let it, QuickTime and/or iCloud for Windows.
If you want to see a Fuckton of useless shit, just install the software than comes with any HP scanner or printer!
Do newer versions of iTunes uninstall Quicktime when you upgrade? If not, it seems likely that a lot of people would have it installed for no reason when they could easily reduce the attack surface.
I believe iTunes for Windows OFFERS to install/update QuickTime, but like the iCloud for Windows install, it's optional.
AV scanners on Android would be for Trojans intentionally placed in things you buy. It doesn't fit the conventional profile of malware and certainly isn't comparable to the Windows situation.
The virus scanners that Linux and MacOS have are to clean WINDOWS viruses.
No, OS X has plenty of viruses now. Linux has had worms but they mostly targets servers.
ORLY?
Name 3 OS X Viruses (not Trojans).
Why is windows vulnerable to viruses, for example? Other OSes doesn't have that - to the extent that they don't have virus scanners.
Other OSes do get viruses. There are AV scanners for Mac, Linux and Android etc. Windows just gets most of the action because it's used by more people.
There are AV scanners for Macs for two reasons:
1. Because Windows Switchers can't fathom a computer without a Virus Scanner.
2. Because... Profit through FUD
Quick, everyone, ditch windows. Apparently it is the culprit here. Besides, everyone knows quicktime runs better in linux. Quicktime? Please. The last time that tripe touched anything I own was like ten years ago. Realplayer is another heap of dung.
Yeah, Microsoft thought QuickTime was such "dung" that they literally STOLE the Source Code from Apple.
I blame Microsoft, more than Apple. Qucktime and Java, were Microsoft's biggest threats at one time, so Microsoft did little to embrace such tools, and actively went to making them suck on the windows environment. Forcing Apple and Sun (now Oracle) to get creative on distribution of its software. Microsoft could had realized that these competing software was popular on their platform, and it may be a good idea, to allow Apple and Sun/Oracle to post updates straight to Microsoft so it would be part of the standard Windows update. But they didn't go that route, so Both Apple and Sun/Oracle have a separate update tool installed on each PC, That will go off at unexpected time, and also be that one process that you don't need so you remove it.
Microsoft not only didn't embrace QuckTime, they actually STOLE the Source Code from a Contractor that was working on some QuickTime stuff, while simultaneously changing the rules about Plugins in a way that was SPECIFICALLY intended to stop QuickTime from working on Windows.
Apple's Response: They changed the way the QT Plugin worked, and had the new version posted within 24 hours of MS's little gambit.