browser-bundling the apple way

by Christoph Engemann, posted on May 11, 2004 - 7:37pm

Switching to Mozilla Thunderbird as the main mail app on my iBook gave me some undesirable insights on how Apple tries to constrain choice in internet applications. I assumed that you set your standard web-applications in the system preferences. After searching through them and the entire system afterwards, I was astonished to find the dialog hidden within Apples own web-applications. The standard web browser is set in the Safari preferences, the mail client at the correspondent place in Mail.

This is a change in Apples policy, since older versions of OS-X allowed to change your web apps where you expect it: Among the internet & network options in the system preferences.

Certainly not the Microsoft way in browser bundling, but still a sneaky attempt of preventing people to adopt different products.

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