“If you don’t like the product you’re being sold, taking your business to a competitor is a good idea. But becoming a competitor may be a better idea. That’s what Apple has done with its Safari Web browser: Instead of waiting for Microsoft to update the aging Internet Explorer, it wrote its own software, reports Rob Pegoraro for The Washington Post. “Mac users can be glad it did. Safari (http://www.apple.com/safari) is one of Apple’s finest releases, an elegant piece of work that shows a refreshing emphasis on two often-neglected qualities: simplicity and speed.”
Pegoraro writes, “This browser — a free, 6.2-megabyte download for Mac OS X 10.2 — boots in a few blinks of the eye and displays pages faster than competing browsers… other words, bundling a Web browser with an operating system makes sense — just as Microsoft said! But unlike Microsoft’s version of browser integration, Apple’s preserves choice. Uninstalling Safari is as simple as dragging its icon to the Trash.”
Full article here.
Let the World now, nobody needs MS anymore!
OK: TEXT correction:
Let the World know, nobody needs MS anymore!
Adding to the list of Safari’s features not mentioned in the article: Safari allows for the easy return of unwanted mail by bouncing mail back to sender. The sender gets a message that the e-mail address is not valid and could not be delivered. Hurrah!
Or crush the spam with Safari by only accepting e-mail to your in box from those already in your address list; the rest can go to the “junk folder” and can be reviewed later and/or automatically dumped after a pre-set period; giving you time if you want to drag a message out from the trash.
Um, Chuck, Safari is Apple’s Web Browser. You’re referring to Apple’s email app, Mail. Which also kicks ass.
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-DaMacGuy
Chuck. hahaha
Dont look now, but Apple Computer has poured the foundation
for dominabce in the computing world over the next decade
through the development of its operating system , other soft
and hard ware like IPOD. All roads lead to Cupertino. We
can do nothing but submit having already taken the bite.
Good Bye pearly gates
not that i am a fan, but i need Word…Appleworks is a joke….
I thought that Darwin was opensource. If so, why all the fuss about Apple “integrating” Safari into the OS. If it is opensource, then anyone can do that. Am I missing something?
Safari isnt ‘integrated’ into the OS. Its a standalone app that you can download for free and will be supplied already installed if you buy a new Mac. This doesnt preculde you from using any other OSX compatible browser (IE, Camino, etc. etc.), or even an open source one under OSX. In fact you can have them all open at the same time. And as mentioned previously you can easily delete Safari if you dont want it and your computer will NOT grind to a halt. Just drag it to the trash and its gone.
Jacko,
This is supposed to be a discussion on the Washington Post Safari article, however, since you mention Word vs AppleWorks, here’s my input.
MS Office – which includes Word – is available for OS X. Its fully compatible with the Windows version of Word, ie. documents can be interchanged seamlessly.
AppleWorks, while not providing all the bells and whistles of Word, is a very useful application which includes word processing, database (flat-file, not relational), spreadsheet, drawing, painting and presentation modules, all better integrated than anything in MS Office. I use it for most of my business’ “office” needs and it doesn’t frustrate me like Office. So it really isn’t a joke, i’m sure, for a LOT of people.
Its all about supporting your team. Im just glad that Im on the Apple side. Im finaly using a computer that works, not just works but is fun to use and now that I’ve ditched IE and Office X I can sleep at night knowing that I’m truly whole heartedly supporting the team. Come on everyone now is the time to support your team!
Safari isn’t integrated with the OS. It has a seperate rendering engine that is usable by the other applications you install. So it still sits on top of OSX, meaning no Windows-like security problems, whilst allowing other programs to benefit from it being there.
Unfortunately, as sleek and pretty and fast and everything that Safari is, it still behaves like a beta on some accounts, even though it was released as version 1.0 already. It doesn’t work well with proxy servers and SSL connections (try looking at the support forums under the apple site). Many people can’t log into their banks using it. It goes into ‘beach ball’ mode a couple of times a day on me. Thus, Apple still has some ways on it.
Anyway, it’s a good browser, but not polished enough to make me switch from Camino yet (which, as a .7 beta, it’s quite nice and at least fast on my machine… I know it’s not fast on other’s).
…Jose
Okay, ik ga ze plaatsen op m’n web-log.
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