I noticed this last night and was simply floored. At NO point did I ask for MobileMe to be installed on my system. - Bradley McSpinn

Maybe I'm just beaten down by years of being abused by computer hardware and software companies. I wasn't even aware of this until your post. Sure enough, the icon is in my control panel. Do I care? Not so much. I have like 200GB of drive space left, there are 56 items in my control panel and I only ever use...5 of them. - Robert Seidman

yeah I noticed that when I installed the new iTunes. I thought it was just one of the necessary evils associated with managing my iPod. - Rahul Das

Combine this and the "force install" of Safari on the Apple Updater for Windows, Apple is getting very close to becoming a spammy company. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Doesn't uninstalling "Apple Mobile Device Support" also break iPod/iPhone syncing? That's not much of a solution if that's the case. - xxdesmus via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Months ago I removed all Apple software from my pc out of irritation. Quicktime kept trying to take file associations and was causing browser crashes. My browser has been much more stable without it. - Lurking Grue via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Apple is evil. I love OSX, my macs and mi iPods, but apple just does not get it. They get away with so many things (iTunes songs only playable on iPods, pushing software that you do not require, suing blogs, etc.) just because they are apple. They might be less evil than MS but they are. - Arturo Servin

Probaly I'm just lazy and actually use these options.. but then, while I don't use an iPhone ( see my comments on this article http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...) I'm using loads of apple products and MobileMe is one of them. It would have been better to be able to make a choice, at least.. but that will come next up probably in a iTunes 7.7.9.9.9 version.. - Jaap Willem via FriendFeed MT Plugin

What's the problem? It works like that on the Mac and MobileMe is part of the iPhone experience. Not a big deal and you don't have to subscribe to it. - fbrunel