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JoeM
Good long description, thanks
Bill Sanderson said:You're really mixing apples and oranges here, I think:
1) the vulnerability was in Itunes versions before 4.7.1.
http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=180
This thread was started because of feature found in Itunes 6.0.2, right?
I do agree that vendors need to do a better job of describing to the users
what interactions the software has with other machines across the Internet
or other networks, however.
2)--the issue of resources and load on the users machine: What software
vendor gives any clear indication about these issues? I'm not aware of
any guidance you can find about this kind of issue other than looking at
minimum system requirements and the like--or perhaps other users
experience in groups such as these. Sure--extra "features" Apple adds do
use resources on your machine. It'd be nice to be able to turn every one
of them on or off easily, quickly, and without repercussions for any other
functionality on the system or within the application. I've yet to find
an app of any complexity that really allows for all that though.....
In the last analysis--uninstalling the app, not buying the product--is the
recourse a consumer has--and that's a lot more likely to have a clear
effect than critiquing the product in a third party forum, such as this
one.
I realize that you had a specific request in starting the thread--and it
was a reasonable idea--I don't know whether Microsoft is likely to take
cues from these groups about such a matter--but it certainly doesn't hurt
to bring the matter up--but it needs to be clearly described in terms of
Microsofts published criteria--exactly how Itunes 6.0.2 is in violation of
those criteria.
As I understand it Apple has modified the app slightly to give clearer
notice to the user about this interaction.
I've got to say that this sure reminds me of the Alexa feature in Internet
Explorer that raised such a fuss--you bring up a URL, and then there's a
"like sites" button or something like that that you can hit.
Well--hitting that button passed the URL up to Alexa so they could pass
back "like sites."--not too hard to understand, you'd think--but raised
enough ruckus that the feature is gone.
We're demanding (or maybe the vendors are providing) functionality that
resembles magic in apps these days--then when we figure out the hocus
pocus behind that magic we're offended--what--you mean it isn't Extra
Sensory Perception that enables Apple to show me music that is similar to
the music that I am listening to?
I'm sounding off too much here--I guess--I agree with you that the feature
needed to be better described and laid out in the eula and other
descriptive material--and they've improved on that--so I'm willing to let
it rest at this point.