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I don't buy Apple computers but isn't that a main selling point with osx?

It is one of the selling points. It has been over 5 years since Apple has sold a computer with any third party software on it.

Out of curiosity, what 3rd-party sw did Apple bundle over 5 years ago?

Oddly enough, I have a fresh install of Os9.2 here, from 2001.

It's got IE5, Stuffit Expander, Netscape Communicator 4.7.7, and Outlook Express 5.0.2, and Java.

Apple used to bundle demo apps and games with their computers. I for example remember getting a demo of a Tony Hawk skating game and a couple of other apps with an iBook.

Java

Depends on whether you consider iTunes crapware :-)

iTunes isn't crapware on OS X. It is on Windows though, I think mostly because Apple doesn't want to put too many resources into iTunes on Windows.

iTunes on OS X runs better than any other music apps (that are not command line music clients like ncmpcpp) I've used, and I've used a lot. On OS X, I can't see why people would call it bloatware/crapware.

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