I agree about OS X and iTunes...but for many years (possibly only on Windows) Quicktime was right up there with RealPlayer at the top of my list of bad software: it played the "all your file associations are belong to me" card, making itself the default player for almost every media type on the computer. Including media types that were only partially supported, and more often than not couldn't be played.
On top of that, the free version refused to play videos above a certain resolution, attempting to force us to pay Apple to watch movies they didn't create or distribute.
Fortunately, the default installation is a bit more friendly today, and it's no longer necessary to fix my relatives' and friends' media playback every time they install Quicktime...it's become another innocuous browser plugin that only shows up when it's needed.
It does still tick me off, though, whenever I see the name Quicktime.
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I agree about OS X and iTunes...but for many years (possibly only on Windows) Quicktime was right up there with RealPlayer at the top of my list of bad software: it played the "all your file associations are belong to me" card, making itself the default player for almost every media type on the computer. Including media types that were only partially supported, and more often than not couldn't be played.
On top of that, the free version refused to play videos above a certain resolution, attempting to force us to pay Apple to watch movies they didn't create or distribute.
Fortunately, the default installation is a bit more friendly today, and it's no longer necessary to fix my relatives' and friends' media playback every time they install Quicktime...it's become another innocuous browser plugin that only shows up when it's needed.
It does still tick me off, though, whenever I see the name Quicktime.