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Re: iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application?
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:26:48 -0500
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:31:02 EST, Jeff Kell said:
Some also have "pre-loaders" to make the application launching "faster". Get enough of those eating up enough memory and gee, it will take longer to load than it did in the first place.
The problem is that the authors of each of those pre-loaders think that *their* application is the most important, and should load quickly, because every moron knows *their* app is the reason anybody buys the system.....
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- iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application? Richard M. Smith (Jan 11)
- Re: iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application? Blue Boar (Jan 11)
- Re: iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application? David Lodge (Jan 11)
- Re: iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application? der Mouse (Jan 11)
- Re: iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application? Nick FitzGerald (Jan 11)
- Re: iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application? Jeff Kell (Jan 11)
- Re: iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 11)
- Re: iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application? David Lodge (Jan 14)
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- RE: iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application? Todd Towles (Jan 11)