Comments on: A sleazy QuickTime trick

By: Frederick Von Flintstone

Frederick Von Flintstone — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:05:03 +0000

Apple update!
They now have two buttons of equal size next to each other (sound familiar?) when you go to the Quicktime download page. One with the iTunes crap and one of just Quicktime! FINALLY!

KIMO+

By: Jochen

Jochen — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 14:36:53 +0000

QT 6.5.1 offers the choice of storing the song/video.
So far as I know QT 7.0 doesn’t ! It offers instead to buy the pro-version.

I could not check that myself, because I want to stick with 6.5.1

Could anybody check that.
Thanks.

By: Dane

Dane — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:40:20 +0000

When I loaded the quicktim7 (on win xp home edition), I got an error
could not open hkey_localmachine/software/quicktimeplayerlib.quickplayerapps/clsid verify that you have access to the key or call your support personal……… any idea what I should be doing..

By: GrannyLinda

GrannyLinda — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:33:18 +0000

How dumb was this to download all that? After I download
QuickTime Player for 3 hour’s it says at the end of
3 hours I need Window’s 2000 or XP, I have Window’s Me
so guess I can’t watch Videos of the grandkids they send
from there cell phone with out running out and getting
a new computer.. Isn’t there another way to view them?
Why can’t the cell Phone’s use Window Media player?
GrannyLinda

By: LFugate

LFugate — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:23:45 +0000

I had the same problem with the release of QuckTime 7. I had iTunes on my PC until I realized that I wanted no part of any DRM crap, and would never, EVER download music again. I removed iTunes and updated QuickTime with the standalone link and haven’t looked back. Frankly, I want no part of i-ANYTHING ever again, be it Apple, Microsoft, or whatever.

Now that I’ve had my rant, I’m going to go relax and play some LPs on my bedroom stereo. Ain’t nobody gonna deny me THAT!

Larry

By: lbarker

lbarker — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:02:44 +0000

A young friend who has a laptop PC demonstrated to me why he prefers Quicktime. Compared with the Windoze software, it gave a better picture AND better sound. If this die-hard Mac user was surprised.

By: chunkygif

chunkygif — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:36:14 +0000

As a long time Mac user forced to live in a PC world (I use & own BOTH), I find it funny to read more flaming crap about Apple. Do you HAVE to use Quicktime? No. But remember that it’s thanks to Apple that the video revolution started on the computer & web — even amid attempts by Microsoft to squelch it in favor of WMP.
Is Apple perfect? Not even close. And they are trying to finesse users into d/l-ing iTunes to increase their market share; but isn’t this just them finally taking pages from the Microsoft marketing playbook to increase their dominance when/where they can? There are alternatives, as have been pointed out. Do some research before putting crap on your computer (anyone remember the old RTFM mantra IT handed out in the old days?).

By: Bob Paine

Bob Paine — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 04:17:24 +0000

SIR,

I don’t make a habit of adding to ‘comments’ sections, but I’ve been riding the edge of a perfect 10 day and feel the need to tip my hat to one of the thousands of faceless computer chaps who generates gleanings in cyberspace.

I’d just like to thank Ed Bott for saving me some time and pointing out the not-at-first-obvious link to the standalone player and the update debacle which I wouldn’t have known about otherwise. You popped right up in the top 10 on my GOOGLing the unwanted ITunes ‘feature’.

The ease at which one can find and exchange info on the web still amazes me to this day. I still remember the dark era of 029′s, ‘Big Iron’ and TSO.

Sincerely,
Bob Paine

By: Julian Nicholls

Julian Nicholls — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:00:26 +0000

I have never really worried about this, I just install it all and remove iTunes without ever running it.

I’ve never had the slightest problem uninstalling it, although I have never ever run it.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 19 May 2006 02:32:06 +0000

What the hell, this guy work for real.com? Both Realplayer and quicktime proprietary formats SUCK. Use WMP or winamp which support AVI, MPG, etc, and ditch the secondary players.

By: George Keller

George Keller — Mon, 15 May 2006 00:24:13 +0000

QuickTime 7.1 standalone is available at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone.html

The main download site no longer offers the choice of the standalone version.

By: Albert

Albert — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:34:47 +0000

I agree: ‘Totally’ sleazy on Apple’s part. Too bad I didn’t read this before I got sucked in to it. I had a ‘bitch’ (read that Apple) a real bitch of a time getting iTunes ‘off’ my computer and had to take QuickTime down with it. I also used CCleaner (free, highly recommended) to remove the last sputtering, clingy vestiges of both off of my computer. I read your article and thanks to you found the very ‘muted’ link to the standalone download. Apple and all others who think this is the way to go to get your software numbers up, think again. I will think twice about any Apple product, I don’t care how good it is.

By: JonnyBravo

JonnyBravo — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:31:39 +0000

First of all once again I would like to say thanks to Apple to let me live different experience and not be a part of “Windows people” anymore.

It obvious that for some its difficult to understand simple things, like why QT is a part of iTunes for windows and not for Mac. If you want to answer yours self so get the Mac and see, owise here is the SECRET:

iTunes and iTunes music store have features like movie trailers, which obviously requires QT that is why its bundled, to allow the whole package work the way it should. You say why its not bundled for Mac? Because all Mac have QT pre-installed this is default player.

So enjoy your “last year” Longhorn, Vista, Whatever window and best regards to Mr. Gates.

By: Dominick

Dominick — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:38:44 +0000

It’s ironic. I just wanted to get iTunes without Quicktime, as, every time I reinstall Quicktime, I go through a mess of a time trying to keep it from taking over my web browser. This wouldn’t be so bad if Quicktime 7 ripped out the ability to ‘save as file’ so that, if I click a link to a multimedia file, I have to either listen to it in the Quicktime plugin, back up a page, right click on the like and only THEN be able to ‘save as file’; or I have to pay $30 bucks to do something that every version of Quicktime has done before, up until now…

And don’t even get me started on the fullscreen option for watching videos (it’s not free anymore, either).

So put me in the minority that’s trying to get away from quicktime…

By: Kevin Callahan

Kevin Callahan — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:00:59 +0000

I own a mac and a PC, and I have seen these kind of tricks from all sorts of developers. They’re not going away, although I think Ed for bringing this particular example to our attention.