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“Apple Inc. will create a version of its Safari Internet browser for Windows, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said on Monday, challenging Microsoft Corp. in its key stronghold of Web access software,” Scott Hillis reports for Reuters.
MacDailyNews Note: Apple has created a version of Safari for Windows. The beta can be downloaded here.
“The move by Apple, which has expanded beyond its Macintosh computer core with iPod music players that work with Windows and the upcoming iPhone, could let the company control how the vast majority of people use the Web at a time when services and programs are increasingly becoming Internet-based,” Hillis reports.
“Jobs also said Apple would let outside developers create applications to run on its upcoming iPhone by tapping Safari, softening the company’s previous position that the device would not support other software due to security concerns,” Hillis reports.
“Speaking at Apple’s annual developers’ conference in San Francisco, Jobs put Microsoft’s dominant Internet Explorer browser squarely in his sights, saying that test versions of Apple’s Safari software were twice as fast,” Hillis reports.
“‘We assume Safari for Windows should increase market share and encourage Web site developers to allow for greater compatibility with Safari,’ Soleil Equity Research analyst Shannon Cross said,” Hillis reports. “‘It should also help increase Apple’s exposure to the Windows community and potentially attract a larger audience of switchers,’ Cross wrote in a research note.”
Full article here.
Scarbro, I wasn’t able to duplicate your issue, it worked fine for me. I watched the trailer for Knocked Up (looks like a TV sitcom). Do you have QT 7.1.5?
Scarbro
I had a problem similar to that in Camino. I was told to go to System Preferences, Quicktime, Advanced, MIME Settings, and uncheck “Flash Media” under the Miscellaneous file formats.
MW:worked
re: That is… if they actually download it, which… come on.
The balance of market share reflects the amount various users.
IE – The obviously much higher PC user base
Safari – The growing but still small Mac user base
Firefox – Mac & PC users that actually care and know about their web browser
This basically means that the only PC users that would stop to think about the web browser they’re using and why, probably have already switched to Firefox.
The only PC users that will download this are ones that primarily use macs already and developers on PCs that want to test across all browsers.
Sorry able, I’ve been a dedicated user and fan for a LOOOONNG time, but this is one move I find a bit pointless.
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Total rubbish.
Everyone I know who uses a windows pc uses all type of browsers and dont just use one browser only.
Browser usage has changed, people are not loyal to one type of browser now days and generally switch from brower to a new one regualrly.
I myself use 3 browsers – and lets not forget, if you work in the web or mobile or design industries you will be testing your content on ALL browsers to make sure it works properly.
Apple released Safari for Windows is great for the web community.
yeah the fact is fire fox is pig ugly and I hate the PC look when you are in certain sites that have imput panes etc ……. safari is just prettier. period.
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One thing that has always bugged me is the way that other browsers don’t do shadows. I like what they add to text on a site for links.
“Aha – the true strategy is becoming clear – take over by enetering in the back door”
That’s always been my strategy.
Some of you guys are getting it and some of you aren’t. There is NO single reason why Apple released Safari for Windblows. It’s more like 2 reasons. Yes I agree that it might be so the iPhone Safari and the Desktop Safari can sync and that people can develop Ajax & fancy Javascript web apps for the iPhone (sorry but I don’t recognise the term Web 2.0 as a proper name).
But the main reason is that as Apple are gaining traction in the iPod, Mac and now Phone market Apple are looking to coax away more IE users to Safari. They have no beef with Firefox. You can doenload Firefox from Apple website for god sake. I’d like to see MS have a download link to FF (or Safari for that matter).
Both browsers (Safari and FF) are very W3C compatible.
Now IE is the scourge of all proper standards loving web developers lives and any browser that can smash down IE’s strangle hold on the net and the way they seem to have power over what technologies take off and what don’t must be a good thing right?
So Firefox guys and those sad anti Apple fools. Grow up and smell the coffee.
IE must either die or become W3C compatible in all areas or the web will never progress and we will be left with a mess.
Go Apple…
Go Firefox…
Go Opera…
Between you we can kick IE and MS’s ass
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And yes before you ask. I am a web developer.
It looks like the Fake TowerTone is already up and trying to be at it. Too bad his only skill is anal sex rather than humor.
Safari needs a sidebar. Why hasn’t Apple included this feature?
No sidebar is why I still use Firefox. Come on, Apple. Give Safari a side bar, it should have been done long ago.
Wow. This one is simple. Not sure why there is some mis-direction/confusion about this.
Let’s look at some stats:
1) 20 million Mac Tiger Users
2) 2 million Panther/Other Mac Users
3) 500 downloads of iTunes (478 million PC Windows users to 22 million Mac users – over 21 times Windows Users as Mac)
4) iPhone will be usable on both Mac/PC
5) new iPod will be like the iPhone with WiFi but without Phone capabilities
6) Safari is clearly more simple than IE and faster
7) 950,000 Mac developers = 3,000 Widgets
8) At 21 times the number of developers (see (3) above) = just under 20 million PC developers
9) The equivalent number of widgets that Windows users could produce = over 63,000 widgets
10) Widgets are exceptionally similar (if not identical) to Web 2.0/AJAX apps.
11) Dashcode comes out with Leopard and Beta out now.
12) If the same Widget/Developer ratio is used to come up with iPhone apps, then 63,000 iPhone apps could come out in the next 2 years. Of course, much more will come out due to the adoption and popularity of the iPhone.
13) Apple can modify Dashcode to allow regular users to create their own iPhone apps. (Look at the weather/stock widgets on the iPhone. Those widgets are tested under Safari and work on Safari – so do they operate in a frameless version of Safari? If so, all widgets can be ported to the iPhone!)
14) Safari was released for Windows primarily to provide a test platform for the iPhone!!!!! IE/Firefox wouldn’t act 100% compatible and therefore could not be a test platform for Windows developers. (NOTE: THIS IS IT FOLKS)
I get it Steve. This is brilliant. Is there a negative to releasing Safari for Windows? I mean it is another example of showing PC users a great example of a Mac application. It is a serious contender to IE/Firefox. It already has 5% of the market. Brilliant. And in the end, yet another thing to take marketshare away from MS. It was interesting in the slide that Steve showed the market share being taken away as Firefox’s.
Cheers folks. Safari was released as a test platform for developers coming up with apps for the iPhone. Period. End of Story.