Today I have suffered at the hands of Apple on my Windows machine. Something was a bit odd when Adobe Photoshop CS3 started complaining about a licensing issue and needing to re-install. Then Photoshop CS (CS1) randomly wouldn't save a file and locked up big time when trying to browse to another drive.
Strange how it all worked fine yesterday, before I installed the new iTunes update from Apple
Today I've uninstalled iTunes, MobileMe, ipod drivers, apple update, bonjour and now Photoshop loves me enough to remember it's licensed so I can get on with pictures. Then my old and venerable Nero pointed out another issue with the DVD burner that it fixed and required another reboot.
Apple your products are quite nice in general - and I happily use both PC and MAC almost every day - but this is simply sloppy to wipe out your good buddies at Adobe and a heap of my time. Oh and uninstalling Bonjour didn't take the service out either, I needed to rename / delete the C:\Program Files\Bonjour folder.
Dear Steve.Jobs@apple.com,
I suggest you think carefully about your desires to make us all have iTunes and Safari on our Windows PC when all we wanted was QuickTime. Keep pulling stunts like this and you will hurt QuickTime itself.
Some stuff that I found helpful on the road to system repair - thank you kind souls.
- p4pictures -
Sunday, October 5
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That's a useful warning.
Personally I use QuickTime Alternative on Windows rather than Apple's own offering, though when pushed to Apple I try to find the installers-without-extras. That said, my best solution thus far has been to use Winamp rather than iTunes.
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