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June 11, 2007: At WWDC, Steve Jobs unveils Safari 3 for Windows Date: June 13, 2020 05:25PM |
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June 11, 2007: At WWDC, Steve Jobs unveils Safari 3 for Windows, bringing its web browser to non-Apple computers for the first time.
Apple advertises Safari as the world’s fastest and easiest-to-use web browser, capable of rendering web pages up to twice as fast as Internet Explorer and 1.6 times faster than Firefox. It lasts until 2012, but never becomes a major player on Windows.
Safari’s arrival on Windows was not the first time Apple made its software available to PC users. Four years earlier, Steve Jobs begrudgingly agreed to port iTunes to Windows. At the time, he likened this to “giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.”
A whole new audience for Safari
The decision to make a Windows version of iTunes made perfect sense. It meant that the iPod was no longer exclusive to Mac owners, but it broadened the user base considerably.
In theory, porting Safari to PCs could have done the same thing. Windows users massively outnumbered Mac users, and having a larger number of people using Apple’s browser was one way of carving out market dominance in another area.
“We think Windows users are going to be really impressed when they see how fast and intuitive web browsing can be with Safari,” said Jobs in a June 11 press release. “Hundreds of millions of Windows users already use iTunes, and we look forward to turning them on to Safari’s superior browsing experience too.”
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June 11, 2007: At WWDC, Steve Jobs unveils Safari 3 for Windows, bringing its web browser to non-Apple computers for the first time.
Apple advertises Safari as the world’s fastest and easiest-to-use web browser, capable of rendering web pages up to twice as fast as Internet Explorer and 1.6 times faster than Firefox. It lasts until 2012, but never becomes a major player on Windows.
Safari’s arrival on Windows was not the first time Apple made its software available to PC users. Four years earlier, Steve Jobs begrudgingly agreed to port iTunes to Windows. At the time, he likened this to “giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.”
A whole new audience for Safari
The decision to make a Windows version of iTunes made perfect sense. It meant that the iPod was no longer exclusive to Mac owners, but it broadened the user base considerably.
In theory, porting Safari to PCs could have done the same thing. Windows users massively outnumbered Mac users, and having a larger number of people using Apple’s browser was one way of carving out market dominance in another area.
“We think Windows users are going to be really impressed when they see how fast and intuitive web browsing can be with Safari,” said Jobs in a June 11 press release. “Hundreds of millions of Windows users already use iTunes, and we look forward to turning them on to Safari’s superior browsing experience too.”
Ways to improve web conference image and sound quality. [forums.macresource.com]
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Re: June 11, 2007: At WWDC, Steve Jobs unveils Safari 3 for Windows Date: June 14, 2020 12:13AM |
That was also about the time iTunes started descending into usability hell.
It had a decent run, just over 4 years until the last Windows version 5.1.7 in July 20, 2011. Safari for Windows developer console was a lot easier to use than any other at the time. Except for not having security patches for 9 years, it still works in Windows 10.
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It had a decent run, just over 4 years until the last Windows version 5.1.7 in July 20, 2011. Safari for Windows developer console was a lot easier to use than any other at the time. Except for not having security patches for 9 years, it still works in Windows 10.
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