Safari with the adventure
Oct 07, 2007 10:23 AM
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The true surprise of the chief of this world conference of the developers, it is of course the exit of Safari for Windows. In version beta the navigator house of Apple thus finds himself in the beautiful medium of the war of the navigators, much more violent on Windows than on Mac…
At first sight, the decision to leave Safari for Windows is not very comprehensible. Besides one remembers to have had the same feeling when Apple announced its butinor house: open war with Microsoft, encumbered enough crenel: which was then the interest of Apple? The situation is even more difficult today on Windows, and statement which the reception of Safari is rather cold is an understatement. Between faults of safety, rather relative stability, and returned sites (even most current) leaving something to be desired, this grinding deserves more than ever the statute of beta.
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An objective success
Nevertheless, from its exit four years ago, Safari represents an objective success for Apple. At the time, one needed a navigator Web for the measurement of Mac OS X, light, fast, effective, and benefitting from technologies of the operating system. The firm of Cupertino then throws his reserved on DHTML. Today, open Safari and its project Webkit source is the free Web browser, turn on Nokia, and receive (again) the praises of the community Open Source.
Why then take the risk to tarnish this beautiful history? New OS Apple takes the bet to make a success of with Safari what it made a success of with iTunes. The juke-box of Apple initiated the revolution of the numerical music while passing on Windows. The firm of Steve Jobs, who took delay on the ground of the revolutions of the Web, wants to strike a great blow by accompanying these new uses.
To carry Safari on Windows, it is a manner for Apple of recognizing that internet navigator became the new operating system. It gives access to the whole of the possibilities of the Web, and thus becomes a central element of strategy of the actors of the software world. The effort of bearing on Windows carried out by Apple can bear its fruits on many aspects. Whereas all the great names exploit a war of position the Web, which with its bound application and search engine, which with a universal reader (Apollo Adobe), which with “rich Web” Microsoft Silverlight, Apple tries to discuss (modestly) the sector with a navigator who integrates advanced functionalities (integrated research, dimensioning of the fields text, support of GoogleApps).
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Safari for Windows offers you great number of options which will help you to customize his look and way how you web pages will showup in browser |
And when it is known that the base of users of iTunes is 500 million, it imagines the deterrent force quickly that Apple can obtain if Safari meets such a success… In the short run, if it is confirmed that Apple touches incomes for the Google research carried out starting from Safari, the interest is considerable. That can also facilitate the adoption of the Apple solutions in the company. The good news for iPhone in addition, and it is undoubtedly what pushed Apple to make this decision that is a decisive projection for the adoption of iPhone.
With the decision to open somewhat the platform iPhone with the developers, Safari for Windows should allow the developers “Web 2.0” to place at the disposal their applications without inevitably developing them on Mac (by testing them and validating thanks to Safari Windows). The existence of such applications for iPhone will be without question a key element of the adoption of the product by the consumers.
With Safari 3, of course promise already Google Apps for iPhone, which would advantageously solve the question of the availability of the Office continuation. Safari for Windows is thus the SDK for iPhone awaited by much. Rather than to make it possible the Cocoa developers to create applications for OS X, Apple prefers to be addressed directly to the web developers (on all platforms) in their providing Safari, the base on which their applications will turn on iPhone: the factual operating system of the telephone made in Apple.
The opening thus started by Apple, if it dissatisfied the developers Cocoa (which lose a form of monopoly there) is thus full with promises: the applications Web 2.0 should naturally find their place on iPhone. While waiting to concretize all these promises, the developers of Apple must thus be put at work to be confined of a stable and reliable version of the browser…
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