Wired asked the same question I was asking after all the Apple announcements yesterday.
It makes perfect sense for Apple to release its Safari web browser for Windows, but the question is: What right-thinking Windows user would want it?
Steve Jobs’ unexpected announcement Monday that the public beta of Safari 3 runs on Windows left the crowd at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco murmuring its approval.
But the initiative seems to rely on a domino theory fueled by infatuation. Apple is hoping there are Windows users so in love with their iPods and iTunes that they will also download Safari. Then they’ll fall in love with that, and the next thing you know they’ll be down at the Apple Store fishing for their credit cards.
There’s only one problem with that scenario — Safari sucks. A lot of Mac users won’t run the browser (I’m one of them), so why would anyone run it on Windows?
JG
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I HATED safari on my mac using version 2.0. But all of my frustrations with it, and all of the things that firefox has that safari didn’t have been fixed (for me) in the new version 3.0. I am now LOVING safari, using the new version available for free download
All I have to say is Firefox. There are no other browsers out there that even seem appealing in comparison to Firefox. If PC users haven’t already switched from IE to Firefox, why would they think about trying Safari?
Also why would Mac users want to use IE on their Mac.
Just download Firefox already.
-c-
Firefox is the best … and if you download IE tab for FF as well, it will give you about 99% of everything you need. Amazing.
JG
I have a Mac at home and PC at work. Thought I would test it out. I remembered why I do not use it on my Mac. No extensions/ add-ons!
I wish I could have just downloaded the new operating system from Apple instead of Safari to my PC.
I do not use Safari on my Mac. I use Firefox!
Amazing! From what I can tell from the discussion going on around this move from Apple, it is centered on the fact that Jobs said the only way to create 3rd party apps for the iPhone (Amazing!) was to do it through developing Web 2 apps for safari that would run well on it. So, by releasing a Windows version, they show they are committed to safari as more than a browser, but that they are committed to Web2 as a development platform on the iphone, and they are making the resources to do that widely available for pc or mac based developers. Amazing!
Those Apple guys are smarter than they look… (except for the guy in the pc vs mac commercials, he is just a wise ass)
Amazing!