iTunes and Safari: Joined at the Hip

Lonnie Lazar ()

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While some may contend the browser wars are over, Apple certainly ensured the 100,000,000 iTunes account holders Steve jobs alluded to at Wednesday’s “Rock and Roll” event in San Francisco will be downloading the latest version of Safari, whether they use Apple’s browser to surf the web or not.

They’ll download it if they want to use iTunes 9, that is.

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  • ChrisM

    Let the backlash begin…..

  • http://www.atrishq.com Mason Taylor

    haha smooth.

  • GR

    iTunes now has a strong dependency on webkit for rendering the iTunes store. WebKit arrives on Windows systems as the rendering engine of Safari 4. See :

    http://willnorris.com/2009/09/itunes-9-now-with-more-webkit

    I’ll admit this is also in Apple’s interest to have Safari installed, but Windows users don’t have to use it as their browser if they don’t want to. Reminds me of how iTunes has for a long time also required QuickTime to be installed IIRC.

  • Charli

    i give it one week and someone will file a suit over the tying and force apple to have a way to install the needed bits without safari.

  • KN

    actually just installed iTunes 9 and it lets you choose what to download, just unclick Safari if you don’t want it.

  • tony

    Just installed and it wouldn’t let me into the iTunes Store as I don’t have Safari 4 (don’t have safari installed at all). What I don’t like is that they don’t list it as a software requirement on the iTunes download page – they list 10.4.10 and QT 7.5.5 – the first you know about it is after you install it. Why don’t Apple tell you up front?

  • Kevin O’Shea

    Since the dependency is really on WebKit, I would imagine you could install Safari 4 and then delete the app if you really didn’t want it, and iTunes would likely be just fine.