I like the security of knowing what's being updated and entering my password to approve of the update (especially non apple updates) each time the update occures.Īnd I ABSOLUTELY HATE to be given an ultimatium on MY MAC - which is what Google does in this case - i.e. And I think it's just decient for any software to ask permission to update. While I like some of Google's software, I don't actually trust Google enough to let them do auto updates on my Mac without my permission. (Besides the fact that it causes some additional load on your computer and additional internet traffic). If you are cool with this and trust Google to update behind the seens then no problem. It does this by running a program called Google Auto Update which checks Google regurally for updates on any Google applications you have installed and updates them in the background and without the approval you regurally give for updates. In doing some research on this what I found is that Google now want's to auto update ALL the Google apps running on your mac without asking your permission each time.
It gives more detail than my paragraph (my rant) below, helped explain just what Google is doing and more importantly, how to solve the problem by installing a program to prevent the auto updates while keeping the Google applications. To be fair, you do get a free, high quality product from Google and you aren't obliged to buy anything from those advertisers. Google wants you to use Chrome so they will handle all the details. It isn't in Google's interests to provide more explanations. That pretty much explains why Google doesn't use Apple's software distribution ecosystem. Google's customers are advertisers and it wants to sell ads leveraging the private information it knows about it the users of its services.
Apple wants to sell computers and devices and uses the privacy of its customers as a selling point. From that perspective, you can have complete trust in both Apple and Google. It isn't a simple matter of trust per se, but trusting each entity to act in its own interests. But there, the expectation is that if you didn't like something it would be your responsibility to fix it. Even if you used Linux you would have to trust all the programmers who contributed to it.