Safari: For Windows!?

Question

From Job's WWDC presentation:
11:09AM - "There is one other thing we wanted to tell you
about that we
think you might like. Safari... it's been a wonderful
success, there are now
over 18m Safari users. It's climbed from 0 to 5% across the
entire internet.
If you look at the world of browsers, IE is about 78%, Ffx
15%, Safari 5%,
other 2% -- we would love for Safari's market share to grow
substantially.
But how are we gonna do that? Safari for Windows!"
-Darrel

Answer 1

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc. launched a version of its Safari
Web browser for Windows-based PCs on Monday, pitting it against
Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox.
"What we've got here is the most innovative browser in the
world and the most powerful browser in the world," Apple CEO Steve
Jobs said during his keynote speech at the company's Worldwide
Developers Conference.
Safari, which was released a few years ago for Apple's
Macintosh computers, has captured about 5 percent of the world's
browser market share with more than 18 million users, Jobs said.
Internet Explorer, which is built into Windows, has a 78
percent share, while Firefox has rapidly climbed to gain about 15
percent of the market, he said. Like the other Web browsers, Safari
is available at no charge.
Jobs claimed Safari performs twice as fast as its
competitors.
Never one to disappoint his audience, the iconic chief
executive - in his final highlight of his 1 1/2 hour speech - said
Apple's upcoming iPhone will run Safari.
That means, Jobs said, that any application designed to run
on the Safari browser for Macs also would be fully compatible with
the iPhone - Apple's highly anticipated combination cell phone,
iPod and wireless Web browser. The iPhone will be available in the
U.S. on June 29.
The move to make Safari available to non-Mac users is not
unprecedented: Apple also makes its iPod media players and iTunes
Store for Windows. The strategy is aimed in part at drawing more
people to its Macintosh computers.
It appears to be paying off. Mac sales have grown
significantly over the past two years, pushing its slice of the PC
market in the United States from 3.5 percent in 2004 to 4.9 percent
in 2006, according to IDC, a market research company.
"Safari is another Trojan horse that introduces an innovation
of Apple to the Windows community and entices them to the Mac
platform," said Tim Bajarin, an industry analyst at Creative
Strategies, a technology consultancy.
Publication date: 2007-06-11
© 2007, YellowBrix, Inc.