I remember hearing Tom Merritt complaining about this on BOL a couple days ago... Apple's been using its updater to sneak in installs for a while; by default, u

I remember hearing Tom Merritt complaining about this on BOL a couple days ago... Apple's been using its updater to sneak in installs for a while; by default, updating a standalone install of Quicktime will automatically install iTunes on your system. While I'm sure that they're not the first to engage in this practice, it is definitely shady, especially for a piece of software like a browser. In the Quicktime / iTunes scenario, you can at least treat it as a program that simply does more than you need it to do, in the same way that nobody ever really used Realplayer as their default media player. But there is absolutely no functionality to be gained here; Safari is not going to allow them to do anything that they previously weren't able to do.