Comments on: Turning Off Ads in Parallels

By: Ads in Parallels | JohnKiv.us

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By: Another Business User

Another Business User — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 18:28:14 +0000

I too am fed up with the constat spamming by Nova Development. The in app ads also are frustrating. For the amount of money Parallels charges for their upgrades you'd think they would get rid of the ads.

Chock us up as one more business that is leaving Parallels and buying a competing product.

Has Nova become a wanna-be X10 marketing company? Yech!

By: Business User

Business User — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:04:09 +0000

Will be switching to VMWare all of our machines too.

Don't care about the terminal command.

Shady practices like this are way beyond the terminal command.

You suck, Parallels. Now go away.

By: Turning Off Ads in Parallels | External Brain

Turning Off Ads in Parallels | External Brain — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:08:52 +0000

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By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:23:46 +0000

Ha! Now they want me to send them another $50 for an upgrade so it will work with Mountain Lion after having bought the last version less than a year ago. Geez, thats only 150% more than the whole OS cost me. This company is a serious joke. Definitely not going to upgrade and since it doesn't work anymore its been deleted too. I feel relieved and will use something else or use my Dell laptop for Windows. Now if I can only get them to stop spamming me....

By: Michael Tsai

Michael Tsai — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:12:10 +0000

@Don Prior versions also includes, say, 10.7.0 through 10.7.3. You’re right about the OS versions that VMware supports, although for a while there was a version of it that would run Snow Leopard client.

By: knev

knev — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:24:42 +0000

Thanks for the fix, it worked well

By: Don Morris

Don Morris — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 05:19:20 +0000

Michael, I'm wondering about this statement "...mostly to run prior and pre-release versions of Mac OS X." Until yesterday, prior versions would have been Snow Leopard and previous, which VMware doesn't support (except for Server), and pre-release versions would have Mountain Lion, which it also doesn't support. Or is there some way to run those as a guest OS?

By: Chucky

Chucky — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:41:59 +0000

This is all good stuff to know. I'm a happy user of VMWare, but I'm always curious about potentially moving to Parallels. However, I've always greatly valued being able to trust in particular developers, and it's hard to trust a developer that acts like Parallels is acting. If you want to sell ad-supported products, fine, but be up-front about it, and don't inflict it past buyers who weren't aware of it. I'm not a fan of lowest-common-denominator software delivery systems like Apple's app store. And to avoid the kind of restrictive handholding Apple's app store imposes, you need to figure out which developers you can trust. It's a really important factor. (As a tangential example, I'm happy customer of Adobe products despite their trouble in matching OS X UI and installation conventions, since I trust them as a developer.)

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:12:37 +0000

Nova Development are spammers. Unsubscribing didn't work, nor did calling them. I was getting 3 emails a week trying to get me to upgrade even though I was up-to-date. The in-app ads are ridiculous, but I'm really happy with the product otherwise and can't bear to give EMC (VMware controlling interest) any of my money.

MY ADVICE:

- Run this command (I verified the .plist)
- Mark every piece of correspondence from Nova Development as Spam

Note: While reviewing the .plist, I found that there were 20 -twenty- in-app ads for which I had clicked the "don't show again" box.

Sam D: Thank you for sharing.

By: Noted OSX:Turning Off Ads in Parallels

Noted OSX:Turning Off Ads in Parallels — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:57:00 +0000

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By: Greg Chaffins

Greg Chaffins — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:35:27 +0000

VirtualBox. The price is right (free), it has a great way to mix apps on the screen, it is very well supported and updated, and finally no ads.

I switched from the others to VIrtualBox last year, never looked back. And IIRC it can import from the other products as well.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:18:40 +0000

Customer: "I'd also like to know what's going on here. Why are the responses being given in private? Why not answer them here?" Parallels: "Answered in private message " I LOL'd hard. Everyone should just boycott them really, just because your software runs windows doesn't mean you should act like a Windows software developer. If you want to make software that shoves ads down users throats then go make it on that platform not ours.

By: Sanjay Mehta

Sanjay Mehta — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:14:19 +0000

I switched to VMware Fusion precisely for this reason. Luckily I was able to trade in a Parallels license during a Fusion promotion ($10 I believe). Maybe VMware should run another campaign.

By: Deanishe

Deanishe — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:13:43 +0000

Scumbags. I think I'm going to send Parallels some ads via Twitter. Anyone care to join me?

By: allan

allan — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:35:08 +0000

commented in private message

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:32:59 +0000

Thanks for the warning. I was just about to purchase this. The company response to this issue is completely unacceptable. Looks like i'll be using VMware instead.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:40:26 +0000

So will Parallels run OS X in a VM (SnoLeo)? I was hoping it would as Parallels is reportedly much faster.

By: Mic Edwards

Mic Edwards — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 03:44:37 +0000

Switched to VMWare Fusion. Think again, Parallels.

By: Forrest

Forrest — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 03:18:27 +0000

Um, VirtualBox, anyone? Totally free and no ads that I know of. It's run Windows XP, Vista, and 7 on my MacBook Pro whenever I've needed.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 03:05:11 +0000

Disclaimer: I own a couple of shares of VMWare.

I tried VMWare Fusion first, then had problems it couldn't fix, but was able to import my virtual OSX into Parallels, which fixed the problem.

The two utilities can read each other's "disk" formats quite nicely, so those of you switching shouldn't have to do any wiping...

By: cult_hero13

cult_hero13 — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 03:02:47 +0000

What ads? I don't see any. I'm not joking or trying to piss anyone off either, I simply don't see them.

By: Dr.Peril

Dr.Peril — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:31:53 +0000

I just bought Parallels 7 in anticipation of 10.8… suddenly I'm having serious buyers remorse...

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:01:11 +0000

I had a choice between Parallels and Fusion to install on my parents' Mac. I chose Parallels, and now we all regret that. Next weekend I'm going to go ahead and wipe that and buy Fusion to install on theirs and my sister's Macs.

By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:42:44 +0000

I have a windows only program I want to run and was thinking of Parallels. Guess I won't any more..