“Web analytics research firm OneStat.com revealed this week global usage statistics for leading Web browsers. Apple Computer saw the global usage share of its Safari browser more than double since February, according to the report. OneStat.com indicated that Safari increased its global usage share from 0.11 percent to 0.25 percent since February 2003. Based on KHTML from KDE’s Konqueror open source project, Apple Computer’s Safari browser was released in January as a public beta test version. The software was downloaded more than five million times during its beta test, according to Apple,” reports Peter Cohen for MacCentral.com.
“Apple released Safari 1.0 in June, along with a software development kit that enables Mac OS X developers to embed the Safari HTML rendering engine in their own software,” Cohen reports.
Full article here.
Safari is so cooool. I click the icon in the dock and click “My favorite sites” and in about ten seconds I can instantly browze and interchange over 10 of my favorite Mac sites. Internet Explorer, you own 94 percent of the market. I ask you…can you do this??? Huh??? Apple has gotcha yet again. Doesn’t it just make you steam inside that the little 3% maketshare company has kicked your butts again.
IE is at what, version 6 or 7 and still can’t do this. Apple did this in around a years time. My question is…who is the real company writing good, quality software in record time. Micro$oft has milked us like a cow and I am sick of this. Please release the next AppleWorks called “Document”, M$ Word munching software so we can be free once and for all.
Most impressive to me has been the pop up blocking, on my PC I’ve tried all the various flavors of add-on’s and it still won’t let me open pop ups that i request such as Gamecast…
The Autofill feature is also slick as hell compared to any of the IE add on stuff…
And you know the best way to up Safari usage statistics even more…
Get more people to use the Mac and OS X!!!
It’s typical M$. They aren’t going to release anything new for IE because they have 94% compared to the 0.25% that Apple has. I’m sorry, but I don’t think they are exactly shaking in the boots right now…
I personally don’t mind having such a small market share. If the masses miss out on a good product, so be it. Who cares.
Yeah, thank God for the Safari and Camino releases. My blood pressure has now returned to normal levels. Sometimes I used to have to hold back from litterally screaming while waiting for Mac MSIE to render pages. My blood would be boiling while I thought of the fact that MS could easily fix the problem but basically would rather tell Mac users to fsck-off/give-in-to-Windows.
Some people worry that Apple will p*ss MS off by releasing an Office killer to go along with the IE killer (Safari). I say bring it on!