I finally found the download button on another page that was a click deep in the site. I remember searching for the free version of the player at RealNetworks’ Website and for the longest time not being able to find a link to it. In the past, RealPlayer was extremely pushy about selling you stuff like a for-pay version of the player. Sure you can use an alternative PDF viewer, but it may not be able to open files that were created using the latest version of Adobe Acrobat. I’m set with my version of QuickTime, thanks.” “They are constantly releasing updates, and always trying to bundle other things in for me to download.

“I’ve got to give it to iTunes,” says Peter VanRysdam, CMO of 352 Media Group. If you decline to accept the update, that screen will keep coming back as relentlessly as a zombie army.Oh and by the way, Apple commonly takes updating as an opportunity to sneak in installs or updates to other stuff–such as the Safari browser and the QuickTime media player–hoping that you’ll hit the Start button without opting out of those other items. It seems as though at least once a week I’m stuck looking at a “please update me” screen instead of listening to music or watching video. I’ve never seen an app that requires so many updates. Just try to buy a TV show or movie on iTunes and play it on a home-theater system not made by Apple. On the video side, Apple continues to live in the DRM dark ages. On the music side, Apple has eased its monopolistic approach in recent years, but it still doesn’t exactly go out of its way to play nice with non-Apple devices. Apple has a long history of tying its iTunes music and video to Apple devices, making it difficult for people to buy music and video from Apple and play it on non-Apple devices. But Apple’s walled-garden approach to media and devices is what really gives me a pain.

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