Crap, i need to install Quicktime to see this? Dammit. Well, i do want to see the keynote, so… here goes.
No, i want the free version.
No, i want just the stand alone player.
i don't have an iPod. They're expensive, collect more scratches than mosquito day at poison ivy camp and doesn't even have a radio player.
If i wanted that, i'd go talk to Sauron. Just give me the damn stand alone.
*click*
[X] Free Apple Quicktime News
[X] Free Apple Product Announcements
[X] Free Steve Jobs Fanclub newsletter
[X] Free Instructional Video about dancing Nazgul
[X] Free weekly tip sheet about why iTunes will get you sex.
[X] Free visits by people in pressed white shirts and ties asking if you're Content with your life.
[X] Free hourly email reminder that you really want both iTunes and Quicktime Pro.
*click*
*click*
*click*
*click*
*click*
*click*
*click*
i don't care, just give me my damn player.
NO!
Yeah, fine, whatever.
Yeah, fine, whatever.
Yeah, fine, what.. Hey! Where did my editor go?
What? Stop that! i don't need fifteen links to the freaking program…
STOP! NO! BAD!
*grumble* Ok, let me repair all the stuff this just broke. Delete all the damn icons, start up utilities and whatother detrious this insisted on starting.
…
No, you can't install into my tray. No, you're not going to launch on startup, No, you're not going to act like a featured character from Dawn of the Dead. You're going to behave yourself and run when i ask you to.
There.
Now, let's see that keynote.
Yes. That is a perfect description of JR.
Oddly enough, I just had the same issue. All to watch a short video clip that seemed interesting but wasn't. I watched probably less than 24-hours ago and can't even remember what it was now.
Of course, I got the iTunes version. I already had iTunes on there (run once), which my company put on because of strategic initiative to seem like a fun, glamerous company, like iApple. I'm glad we have a new CEO.
Yeah. Exactly. Except, QT7 isn't even available for the platform I'm using. The keynote couldn't have been that interesting if they made it so hard to see, right? I thought so.
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Well, I'm sure the "official" reason is that having that icon allows the program to stay resident and have it launch faster, since you want every form of media running through Quicktime (cuz it's all purdy-fied an' all), and who doesn't want to waste a few K of memory on an application that you run once every few weeks? (Yes, I killed off the ones for MSOffice and OpenOffice too.)
The unofficial reason is to balance off the blatant microsoft branding that's occuring on the other side of the menu bar.
Alternatively, for Mac users the sequence is:
Oh, I need to update Quicktime? Okay. Click on software update, updating system, okay, here's the keynote.
Once you try Quicktime Alternative you will wonder why you put up with all the BS and garbage that Apple's installer makes you wade through.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm
It's really just a repackaging of the Apple QT codecs, minus their player and all the godawful tray icon / autoupdater stuff. If you install Media Player Classic you get a player that is much more capable than the quicktime one and doesn't have that horrid user interface.
Thanks Brian!
There is one personal caveat about the Quicktime Alternative. In order to kill the (constant) requests to "Upgrade to Quicktime Pro", that release includes a user registration. It makes me feel morally oogey, so I've removed that registration signature and will probably just have to deal with Steve's incessant nagging.
That's funny, but a bit overblown from my experience doing the same thing two weeks ago. I found the free player download link easily. I did need to uncheck all the boxes for silly newsletters. While installing, did need to uncheck the options so that no shortcuts, trays, default-application-for-media-types changes would occur. That was all I remember. It was pretty quick. Interestingly, I seem to recall being surprised that Firefox started using QT without my even quitting the program, though I could be wrong about that memory.
Hmm, Odd. All of the newsletters were checked "Yes" when I hit it. It might have been a fluke.
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Annoying but funny