OK just to put things straight:
iTunes relies on WebKit to display it's store. Whenever somebody installs iTunes, he/she installs a reduced version of Safari, too. This reduced version in the past was just tested against the iTunes store and not available for other use. So it is natural that Apple wants to update it's Windows version of web kit to the non-beta version. The only thing not so clever is to lable this update Safari 3.1 and not WebKit and ask the user if he wants an additional installation of Safari during install (which would just be a small .exe that acts as an umbrella).
But anyway:
- windows users are used to this so Apple does not break the rules there
- Apple asks in a nice and polite way
- Apple does not force the installation
OK just to put things
OK just to put things straight:
iTunes relies on WebKit to display it's store. Whenever somebody installs iTunes, he/she installs a reduced version of Safari, too. This reduced version in the past was just tested against the iTunes store and not available for other use. So it is natural that Apple wants to update it's Windows version of web kit to the non-beta version. The only thing not so clever is to lable this update Safari 3.1 and not WebKit and ask the user if he wants an additional installation of Safari during install (which would just be a small .exe that acts as an umbrella).
But anyway:
- windows users are used to this so Apple does not break the rules there
- Apple asks in a nice and polite way
- Apple does not force the installation