Apple's Safari lacks bold vision
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Half of the web just disappeared Another issue has cropped up with Apple's newly released beta of Safari for Windows.â¦
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By LEE BARNES  Has Apple CEO Steve Jobs done it again?  No, not really.  On Monday, Jobs introduced the Windows version of Safari, the Web browser that many Mac owners use.
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By Steve Lawson MORE than a million copies of Apple's Safari 3.0 internet browser for Windows XP and Vista were downloaded within the first 48 hours of it being made freely available last week.
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Is Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O  fine-tuning an enhanced iPod with roughly 50 percent more  storage and a color screen to display photos?
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Apple Computer is still the apple of its own eye, but the company is trying to take a more modest tack with the public. [Missing Links]
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(InfoWorld) - The debate is still on about why Apple Inc. decided to develop a version of its Safari browser for Windows. One of the most popular ideas online -- though one that doesn't appear to be widely supported in the analyst community -- is that Apple hopes to use its age-old rival, Microsoft Corp., to boost its revenues. Offering Safari to Windows users could significantly increase the number of Safari users, and that larger user base could translate into revenue for Apple because some browser makers have revenue sharing deals with search engines, says John Gruber, writer of the popular Daring Fireball blog. Search providers like Google Inc. reportedly split with browser makers the advertising revenue generated when browser users type search terms in the bar embedded in the browser. Gruber's suggestion has spread wildly across the Web, with bloggers and mainstream publications as far flung as the BBC picking up on the idea. It's difficult, however, to confirm Gruber's suggestion. Google declined to comment on any such arrangements that it might have with browser partners. Mozilla Corp., however, has said that it earns a significant portion of its revenue from the search bar in its browser. In its official company blog, Mozilla's CEO Mitchell Baker wrote last year: "We are very fortunate in that the search feature in Firefox is both appreciated by our users and generates revenue in the tens of millions of dollars." Firefox comes with Google as the default in the search bar and users can change that to five other options including Yahoo and Answers.com. Mozilla didn't respond to additional questions about how exactly it earns revenue from the search bar. Apple did not reply to questions about a potential revenue share with search providers. Safari users can choose Yahoo or Google to run the search bar. Microsoft Corp. doesn't have any kind of compensation deals with search engine providers or other browser makers based on users who set Windows Live Search as the default search engine or based on users who set other search engines as the default in Internet Explorer, a company spokesperson said. Google could very well have a similar deal with Apple as it may have with Mozilla, said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at Jupiter Research. Still, he doubts that revenue from the search bar is the primary reason Apple developed Safari for Windows. "Whatever incremental revenue they'd get is almost irrelevant for a company of Apple's size," he said. Instead, Apple has a stake in making sure that Safari has strong support in the market from users and developers because it is a critical piece of the Mac OS and will serve as the primary application development environment for the iPhone, he said. Revenue from the search bar could play a role in the reason behind making Safari for Windows but it's probably not the primary one, said Danielle Levitas, an analyst at IDC. "I think the revenue is not insignificant," she said. "Maybe it's the tactical reason but the strategic initiative is more about the connected device vision and using the browser to deliver Web-based applications." Apple appears to be trying to position itself so that it can control Web access in a variety of devices, including phones, televisions and computers, she noted. The move to Windows could encourage the development of more attractive applications built on Safari because developers will be able to create applications on Safari that can reach Mac and Windows users as well as the iPhone, Van Baker, a research vice president at Gartner wrote in a blog posting on Friday. He doesn't mention the potential revenue gain as a reason. Whatever the reason, Apple has already learned that Windows users are interested in Safari. On Thursday, Apple said that 1 million copies of the Safari for Windows beta were downloaded in the first 48 hours after it became available. Safari has around 5 percent of the browser market share, compared to Microsoft's Internet Explorer's 78 percent and 15 percent for Mozilla's Firefox.
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SUCH an embarrassment of riches. Apple Macintosh users have two new web browsers to choose from. It&#39;s a curious market. All Macs come with two free browsers: Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer 5.2, and Apple&#39;s own slick and elegant Safari.
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There's one problem with Safari for Windows -- Safari sucks. Many Mac users wonât even run it on the Mac.
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Apple launches a version of its web browser Safari for Windows machines.
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Recently posted document throws a little light on a key feature of the next edition of Mac OS X.
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The Apple Macintosh makes its debut. But, despite outward appearances, all is not rosy along the Infinite Loop.
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In the first 48 hours of availability, customers downloaded more than 1 million copies of the Safari for Windows public beta. Safari 3, the worldâs fastest and easiest-to use web browser, supports all modern Internet standards including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and Java. Itâs available as a free download at www.apple.com/safari/.
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Safari users number less than one percent of the US Web browsing populace, according to a new online study, but Microsoft&#39;s dominance has slipped recently, as Internet
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Up to now, I&#39;ve chosen my browser based mostly on which one shows up on my desktop by default. Since Apple&#39;s Safari is preloaded in the Mac OS X Dock, that&#39;s what I&#39;ve been using.
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(InfoWorld) - Apple is becoming a favorite target of security researchers these days. In April, there was the $10,000 CanSecWest hack a Mac contest, and on Monday, there was the Safari Web browser. Or the public beta of Safari for Windows, anyway. Just hours after Apple released its first Windows beta of Safari, researcher Aviv Raff said he'd found a bug. In an interview, Raff said that it took about three minutes of fuzzing to find the bug and that he hadn't tested the issue on Mac OS X. So he couldn't say whether or not it affected Safari on Windows only. The bug causes the browser to crash and "might be exploitable," according to Raff, meaning it could possibly be used to run malware on the PC. Raff was clearly unhappy with Apple's claim that Safari was designed to be "secure from day one" (he called this claim "pathetic"), but he said he wasn't particularly going after Apple. "I don't pick just on Apple," he said. "I've posted about Microsoft and Mozilla issues too." "Everyone has bugs, but not everyone says that they are 'designed to be secured from day one,'" he added. "I guess it's day zero now."
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By Steve Lawson  MORE than a million copies of Apple's Safari 3.0 internet browser for Windows XP and Vista were downloaded within the first 48 hours of it being made freely available last week.
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Appleâs new version of Leopard lists 300 new features, including a Braille font and a Danish spelling checker.