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One of the main points of this thread is that Apple specifically targeted people who _weren't_ trying to install it.

• raverbashing 12y ago
  Ah I understand now. True, if you installed iTunes or QT and it installed it as extra, yeah, you probably have an older browser installed (but I think there's not that many people that still use it)
  • kbenson 12y ago
    I think you are still missing the complete context of the original comment. Once a browser is set as default, for a significant portion of people that won't change unless they are somehow prompted or forced to change it again at a later date. To many people, the browser is just another part of the OS that allows viewing webpages, and they just call it "The internet".
    • basch 12y ago
      lets be honest. flash or java plus the ask toolbar have been installed by now, and managed to install chrome. chrome has a way of installing itself.
    • frogpelt 12y ago
      It seems if they were that clueless, they would have had many more opportunities to change default browsers without realizing it.
      • kbenson 12y ago
        What other browsers auto-install from other software and automatically change your default?
        • jpablo 12y ago
          Chrome?
          • kbenson 12y ago
            From what? It automatically sets itself as default?
            • JohnTHaller 12y ago
              Yup. Chrome is offered as opt-out bundleware with quite a few Windows apps and Google pays the publishers for this. This is how quite a few regular users switched to Chrome. Even just updating Java in Windows it'll try and sneak a copy of Chrome in with the update.