Section: Apple News, Apple Online and Retail Store, Mac Software, Features, Opinions and Editorials, Originals
Dvice.com is an excellent blog that generally reports useful information about the current technology zeitgeist and forthcoming über-cool gadgets for geeks to lust over. But an article posted over there recently by Raymond Wong, entitled “The future of bloatware comes next month with the Mac App Store” left a particularly vile taste in my mouth. Wong incorrectly posits that the impending arrival of Apple’s Mac OS X App Store signals the growth of the Windows bloatware phenomenon to include Mac OS X. No such expansion exists, for several key reasons, and the approach Apple is taking with this curated store highlights major differences between the Mac and hodgepodge chaos Windows users face.
What is bloatware?
Bloatware is, quite simply the unwanted programs that are installed on a computer when purchased. Trial versions of security software, teaser versions of […]
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