QuickTime fiasco: typical Apple, cut and run.

Adobe on QuickTime: You're up the creek without a paddle

Apple has to be the Teflon giant of American industry.  Now that their screwed up media player QuickTime has been found to be a security risk to Windows users, Apple has chose to cut and run with no resolution for millions of users.

“It always seemed as if the Windows version [of QuickTime] was designed by Steve Jobs to punish us. Bundled with iTunes for many years, annoying to install and update, unstable, and with crappy performance: It really sucked. So along with many other Windows users, I deleted it years ago and my online life was immediately brighter.”

This latest foul up along with the erroneous assumption that malware and viruses do not exist in the Apple realm and the fanboys still give it a pass.  Of course the majority of Apple users aren't using their computer beyond email and web surfing to begin with.  Only the cloud will enable the platform to become a viable platform for work.

If you have QuickTime and are not an Adobe Creative Cloud user go ahead and uninstall it.

Why this matters: On Friday the Department of Homeland Security advised Windows users to remove QuickTime once it became clear that Apple had washed its hands of QuickTime for good, leaving two outstanding security holes in it. But, although Apple’s own iTunes for Windows no longer depends on QuickTime, several of Adobe’s video-focused applications such as Premiere Pro and After Effects install QuickTime by default. 

Apple's iTunes for Windows no longer depends on QuickTime however a lot of Apple's software installs QuickTime by default.  As of Monday afternoon the download for QuickTime was still available on Apple's website.

For Adobe's Creative Cloud users there is no quick fix:

This hasn’t left the graphics community with a warm feeling.

Chris Dickman, founding editor of graphic- and design-focused website Graphics.com, had harsh words for Adobe after the news broke.

”Unfortunately? Let me paraphrase that for you: ‘We didn’t see this coming, your systems are compromised if you keep using our software and we will make no commitment to fixing this,’” Dickman said in a blog post. “Sweet. Of course, Windows users are just expected to suck that up. Although all hell would have broken loose if Adobe’s Mac-based video community had been put at similar risk,” he added.

It reminds me of one client, a heavy computer user who purchased a Mac last year but returned it after a couple of weeks.  "I thought they were supposed to be easy to use" he said.  They are if you're not doing anything to begin with.

to read more:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3058312/security/adobe-on-quicktime-youre-up-the-creek-without-a-paddle.html

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