Why Oh Why?
Steve Jobs goes with his Safari Browser to Windows. First Bill G. went with his IE5 to Mac (nota bene better port than original Windows version) and now Apple heads the other direction.
I really do not understand it clearly as Safari is not the best browser out there. It has many issues, it cannot render pages well and even on OS X it is better to use Firefox.
The only reason for me is to validate the WebKit on the wider amount of platforms before integration of iPhone. Seems that iPhone must be somehow behind it and as iTunes were just a great choice for iPod user on Windows (who would use iTunes on Windows if not forced?!?!) then probably all this Safari thing is going to be some jump platform for iPhone integration on different systems.
Anyway... I do not really feel like going to be lab rat for Apple's Safari. Even on OS X I will stick to Firefox :)
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apple stuff sucks
I got home this morning and found this in a msg in msn from a friend overnight:
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that apple browse "safari" is now available for windows too
so i installed and tried it before i haven't been too happy with ff lately .. clicked on favourites to search for an import option, and then it crashed when i clicked of some item "new folder" or so, wtf
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So that's my point...
Why do they bother to release a product that is in no way better than anything existing?
Porting applications is no
Porting applications is no easy task. Although I bet Apple already has some framework in place for iTunes for Windows.
If I waste my time on dsharingu I think Apple can waste its on whatever they want ;)
Same with Microsoft and XBox.. nobody starts from top..
Alterior motive?
I think it's Apple's strategy to get more support for Safari since iPhone (which uses Safari) will be out in the near future. I guess the idea is to "encourage" websites/pages to make sure their stuff supports Safari ... who knows though.
I think I read that
I think I read that somewhere. It makes sense.. then it becomes also some sort of developer tool.