Apple should have fixed that ages ago instead of letting things slide.
Of course, while having a rapid cheap port might have made sense originally, the continued crappy performance and overall experience of QuickTime/iTunes on Windows is really poor. So iTunes isn't "tied" to QuickTime so much as iTunes requires it to run at all for actual code reasons. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was that to rapidly port iTunes to Windows Apple took advantage of the already existing work done for for QuickTime and basically recycled most of the Mac code using the ported APIs instead of rewriting something for Windows from the ground up. As part of the original full port of QuickTime for Windows part of the Mac toolbox was ported too, which became the bases for Carbon. I think it's less asshole-y and more lazy (or at least it is now, arguably less so originally). Tying iTunes and Quicktime together is one of the most assholiest things Apple has ever done,
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I guess my question is this, why is it that apple are so arrogant about their shitty software that they think I'd want to install more of their stuff when I've clearly had to work quite hard already to select the quicktime only download? I'm sorry, I just hate apple so much right now, particularly given their standard claim of how much more secure their software is compared to windows has been blown out of the water by ZDNet's analysis of Mac vs Windows vulnerability stats for 2007. So, I went back to the apple site and there are no updates available for quicktime, it's just that it wants me to install iTunes! THAT'S NOT A F*****G UPDATE!! "7.5" I say, "up from 7.3.1 that's got to be some major update, but I don't want iTunes".
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I downloaded the quicktime player only because I don't want iTunes, so today the apple updater tells me to download an update to quicktime and iTunes to 7.5. Why won't they obey the normal look and feel of the hosting OS? The non-client area should be drawn with glass, but no, it has the ugly apple titlebar, and when you maximise, it doesn't quite go full screen, and then locks up!Īnyway, the real thing that p****d me off. Next up it throws a DEP exception when switching from full screen to windowed mode, which just fills me with so much confidence in the coding abilities of the apple developers! It may have been very long, or it may have been because it contained '' chars, but whatever: windows thinks it's valid, so quicktime ought to too. First up it fails to play my file saying something like invalid file name. So, yesterday I downloaded the latest version of quicktime player so I could watch some H.264 stuff.