If you’re like me, you’re not a fan of Apple hardware or software. Sure you’re probably saying “how can you dislike something so pure?” Well, same way I dislike designer clothing. A mac really is only designer clothing. Sure back in the days of the PowerPC processors Apple was different, but now, you’re just paying insane dollars for a name wrapped in a pretty container(don’t start on EFI).

Among my annoyances are “necessities” now days such as iTunes/Quicktime. Personally, I have a strong vendetta against Quicktime, mostly because it’s constantly messing with Firefox’s stability.

Before you say “it’s a Windows thing” remember this, there’s plenty of other software originally designed for Linux that runs just fine inside of Windows(VLC *cough*). And how about other applications like foobar2000 that are also light on resources

But aside from that, is the annoying Apple Software Updater which now attempts to automatically install Safari. I have no use for Safari, it’s not particularly extensible, and if you’re wanting speed and security, why not try Opera?

But how to get rid of it? I searched everywhere only to find it in a not-so-Windowsy place. Now I will give Apple this, they put it in a logical place where it wouldn’t tie up boot times or otherwise occupy resources when it wasn’t needed. Too many applications these days launch on system boot(I’m talking to you Adobe Updater and Sun Java Updater) and needlessly occupy system resources as well as increase boot time.

It’s in the Scheduled Tasks folder. I’ve since deleted it here and haven’t gotten another prompt for it.

So I end on a higher note than I began. Apple, I’m not a fan of the software itself, but as far as putting an annoying updater in an annoyingly unsuspected place(more annoying that I didn’t think to check here), I’m glad you did it sensibly.