[geeks] Apple applications phoning home

[N. Miller]

On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:37 AM, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

>
> Malicious or not isn't the point.
>
> The application won't let me set preferences without contacting Apple.
>
> It has no need to contact a remote host to change *PREFERENCES* for
> the application.
>
> I'm talking about things like setting the font, and it needs to phone
> home for that?
>
> It's just dumb, and its reaction to being blocked--failing to work--
> is a serious design flaw.

File a bug.  The more people who bug Apple about stuff like this, the  
better off we all are.

=Nadine=