Late to the party here, but:
First of all, it's a tiny little application, and is practically an
iTunes
plugin. Future versions of iTunes will likely have it built in and
you'd
never notice it unless you needed it. Do you complain this much
every time Firefox updates itself unnecessarily? Do you go
through the roof every time Adobe's updater nags you about an
available update?
Secondly, instead of just canceling it the one time you saw it,
you could have permanently disabled the update. I know
Safari, iTunes and QuickTime are not on the MS approved list,
but they are here and they are useful for many people, so you
should at least take 10 minutes to learn how to deal with Apple's
updater, just as you must have spent some much greater amount
of time learning to deal with the likes of (in increasing order of
annoyance) Sun, Mozilla, Adobe, RealNetworks, Microsoft.
As a side note, while it is called iPhone Configuration Utility and
is touted as an enterprise tool, it is also for iPod touches and
reportedly is very popular with college network admins.
You're probably deathly afraid of Bonjour too, and disable it on
your printers and systems because it makes the printers unnaturally
easy to use.
From: Tony B <[email protected]>
Yet again. If this were MS pulling this stunt, they would certainly be
pilloried. And probably sued by the EU. Where's the outrage here?
I first noticed this last week on a client machine. I simply canceled
it, but worried that when it came back the less savvy user at that
machine might install it. Sure enough, after reading this story, I
just logged in to that machine and it's been installed! ARGH. Maybe
time to close down this rogue outfit for good.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/09/apple-pushes-unwanted-enterprise-tool-to-windows-users.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
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