In a post back on March 24th, FreeMacBlog reported on Apple’s decision to bundle Apple’s web browser, Safari in with a Windows iTunes update. This decision was met with heavy criticism by PC users and Mac users alike. It’s been close to a month now since the report, and Apple has decided to remedy the situation, somewhat.

Asa Dotzler, has released an image of the new update screen for Apple software updates. Instead, of software downloads being grouped together with the updates, they now have a new section. According to Dotzler, this is a step in the right direction, but the box for the software download is still automatically checked. Like what Facebook did with their Beacon service, when it was an opt-out option instead of an opt-in. I definitely agree with Dotzler that this is a step in the right direction. I believe that Apple could actually learn from Facebook’s Beacon fiasco. The lesson being that people want the option to download a service, not automatically having it downloaded, with a choice to un-click it.

Anyway, here is the image released by Asa Dotzler. So what do you think, is the change for the Software Update screen enough? Or does Apple need to make new software an opt-in option instead of an opt-out?

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