On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:24:12 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:21:09 GMT, Steve wrote:

Just like anything else, the ability to do updates can certainly be
abused. You don't have to be a beta tester if you don't want to be.
Just don't be an early adopter.

Updates my ass. It's a way to spy on what you are watching and
listening to. A lot of the slowness is directly related to putting
data into memory for future transfer when it calls home.

Think iTunes. :)

I still use iTunes 5 on one of my computers. Works fine for what I do
with it. I keep one of them current though.

Steve