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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Apple will no longer fix Quicktime security bugs (only solution  is to uninstall)
Date: 18 Apr 2016 15:35:10 GMT
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Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 17 Apr 2016 19:19:26 GMT, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> That's kind of the point of this whole sub-thread: iTunes is considered
>> by many people to be bloatware because it contains so much functionality
>> that the user interface is unwieldy,
> 
> That's not why I consider it bloatware. I consider it bloatware 
> because it installs a bunch of stuff that isn't needed. 

You're basically saying the same thing. Those things it installs support
features you claim aren't needed. But other people do want those features.
I know because I'm one of them. 

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