Comments on: Apple didn’t pick a fight w/ Safari on Windows…think about it…

By: chris

chris — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:30:07 +0000

…and if more people were aware about Safari for Windows, because the majority of people have never even heard of Safari to began with, they probably would, and should use it. It is much more simpler and FASTER; and it uses tabs, which some people also don’t know, it has a built in pop-up blocker and firewall that is reliable and easy to manage, and lastly, it downloads very easily. Mac For Life…

By: chris

chris — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:22:49 +0000

you are totally right

By: Myles Braithwaite

Myles Braithwaite — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:37:28 +0000

I would have to disagree with on some of that. Though I do believe that Apple doesn’t want to start a browser war, WebKit has been available for windows and linux for some time now. I think it was more of a marketing plow.

By: Piko

Piko — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:20:20 +0000

Apple get’s paid by Google for every search that originates in the Safari browser search field. This is true for the Mac and Windoze version. It’s plain and simple economics. Since 1,000,000 copies of Safari was downloaded for Windoze last week (in the first 48 hours), that’s that many more platforms from which Apple get’s credit for the query.

Apple wins no matter if they win the browser war. That’s not the game. They just want to originate all Google searches! Simple…

Piko
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By: mark

mark — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:45:49 +0000

I refuse to click on the ComputerWorld article. I suspect it’s written by Mike Elgan, whose job in life is to garner page hits.

If it is, he’s been wrong everytime he’s written about Apple, and yet he can’t stop himself from writing about Apple. Mike Elgan has quickly joined John Dvorak, Rob Enderle, and Paul Thurrott on the list of truly clueless when it comes to Apple.

By: Phred

Phred — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:41:34 +0000

Totaly agree with your analysis.

To Andrew: Wrong, 2 major bugs that prevent use in my environment. 1) Crashes on authenticating to a proxy server 2) Fails to load intranet pages from our protected intranet. Both show stoppers. As for Safari being the “best” browser, that’s a subjective statement as many Camino, Firefox and even Opera users would tell you. Objectively it still has some issues supporting open standards completely.

However, I can’t wait for Apple to get it right as it will be my browser of choice.

By: CB

CB — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:55:34 +0000

Thank you for your sanity. It is refreshing to say the least. A lot of dummies out there not listening very closely to Jobs’ keynote address at WWDC.

By: krye

krye — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:44:44 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more.

And you know what? If Apple never released Safari for Windows I can almost guarantee that the gazillion Windows users that get used to the look and feel of Safari on their iPhone would be begging Apple to release it for Windows.

By: Andrew Macdonald

Andrew Macdonald — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:44:41 +0000

I don’t see why Safari wont succeed “ever”. I think it’ll turn into a similar story as iTunes because it really is the best browser and Apple is giving windows users more of what they’ve been asking for. Steve Jobs said that windows users have been asking for more apps like iTunes and Safari is doing just that. It really isn’t that buggy either and in all my uses it’s been the fastest which is another reason why it will succeed.