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Apple Forbids Windows Users from Installing Safari
theregister.co.uk — As spotted by our Italian friends at setteB.IT, Apple's Safari license says that users are permitted to install the browser on no more than "a single Apple-labeled computer at a time." This means that if you install Safari for Windows on a Windows PC, you're violating the license.
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It is all part of a clever ploy to get users to install it with iTunes, and then sue them for everything the have.
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You stole my comment? lawsuit?
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Now the reason why they put Safari 3.1 in the Apple software update even if you didn't currently have it makes sense! They just want to sue everyone.
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Ah, now I can finally put those Apple logo decals to good use!
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I think the bigger news here is that someone actually read a License Agreement.
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This "Apple" we are talking about so much, seems to be a bit rotten.
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I was PUGging Sins of a Solar Empire the other day and one of the other guys thought he had a crash to desktop. Instead it was the Apple Software Update pushing Safari at him stealing focus from the game...
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Thats great WHY would licensed Windows users forgo all logical steps and install Safari when they could emulate OSX9 or 7 and run it through a virtual desktop?
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Oh noez now I have to settle for firefox..
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Just uninstalled everything Apple related, lately their handcuffs have just gotten too much.
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I'm still waiting for Apple Software Update to say "OSX is ready to install on your machine. Click OK to continue....". Not that I'd mind that.... not at all ;)
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FUD. Burried.
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I would like to sue windows users who use safari, what garbage.
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Wow, well.. honestly, this seems like nit-picking.
Apple knows 98% of the people that use their programs don't read their liscense agreement.
Hell, in this day and age, they probably have so much in that agreement that they dont reread it every time they update.
Give a large corporation a break. Microsoft is tons worse than anything Jobs has thrown at us. -
No need to worry you can settle out of court with the Instant purchase of a Mac ;o)
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No worries, I wouldn't install Safari.
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This is probably the stupidest article I've ever read.
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Looks like someone in the legal department used copy/paste.
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Bootcamp.
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This just proves that even people in the legal department don't read the EULA.
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Weird, the wording is fundamentally flawed, even assuming that it's (mistakenly) a commercial license agreement. It refers only to "the Apple software," which could be interpreted as a particular application, not the license to use it. I wonder if the five-license Leopard package has this same agreement.
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Oh dammit! I guess I'll just have to make do
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Sounds like someone should have listened to their mothers and kept off the weird-looking mushrooms in the garden.
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Why would anyone want to run Apple software on their Windows machine? Apple software is slow, clunky and designed for use by Downes syndromers.
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Apple is desperate. Safari is a failure even on the Mac platform. I work in an IT dept. where most of our machines (desktops and laptops) are OS X, and hardly anyone uses Safari. It's all Firefox. The problem with now trying to 'sneak' it in on Windows users is that the audience is even more locked into whatever browser they're used to and will be even more unwilling to change to something that from all accounts is not a superior product in any way.
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Sounds like entrapment to me.
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OH NO!!! whatever shall i do...........
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mozilla.com nuff said
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*****
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The new safari is okay. Im still sticking with Firefox, though.
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(rick roll comment)
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So, just slap an Apple sticker on the side of the computer.
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I do not license this comment to be read by Digg users...
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haha this reminds me of the other little EULA thing apple slipped into itunes awhile back about not using itunes to make nuclear weapons...
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*buried as inaccurate*
Our teh Apple can do no wrong! -
Great, most mac users don't use safari anyway. I installed it on my windows machine and since the latest update, it just crashes upon launching. I figure it's for web developers to see how sites look on safari, even if they are crazy enough to not use a mac.
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EULAs are stupid and nobody reads them. Not even apple apparently. They probably reused a license from some other software and forgot to update that part.
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Apple Update software IS malware.
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Like anyone gives a rat's ass about Safari anyway...
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I wonder if it could be argued that because the EULA is not for the software in question, it could be seen as totally invalid?
It's up there with the other EULA in a text box you can delete before hitting "I agree", or altering a program before you run the install because you have not agreed to the license yet baring you from changing the program. -
Oh no! Now I'll have to buy a MAC to continue my Nuclear Weapons research.
...What? ...Oh, *****. -
Does this mean that Apple can be sued for the illegal distribution of their own software?
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Yeah, sounds about right from Apple these days. First they trick you into installing it by floating it in through Apple Update. Then they tell you you can't legally run it. "Give him the stick. DON'T give him the stick."
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first of all, they offer it on their own website for Windows, so clearly you're allowed to do it. second, does that mean if you have two Apple computers, you're not supposed to have Safari on both?
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No real danger is there really? Noone is actually going to install that POS
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Suck my dick Apple, you can't bully me, I shall do as I please.
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Why does Apple offer a Windows-executible zip file for a program that is illegal to run on Windows? This makes no sense.
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...wow they want to sue you, cause apple is such the company to sue people. please...
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Good job I uninstalled it after it sneakily tried to install itself with my latest iTunes update then, isn't it. I like Apple products just fine - I love my iPod to death and I'm getting a Macbook for uni, but damnit, stop infiltrating my computer. If I wanted Safari I'd download it myself.
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