Safari for Windows: Good or Bad Idea?

[doynton]

I agree. And I know that Apple is just trying to build their iOS and OS X ecosystem, but a lot of their iOS uses also use Windows and are not about to move to Mac. This would help give them more control over the ecosystem there too.

The browser you use isn't terribly important though. MS dropped IE for mac 15 years ago.

As Chrome and Firefox work fine on both I can't see any incentive for either company to waste the money as no-one would actively choose either IE or Safari as they are both fairly mediocre even on their native platforms.

 

[grahamperrin]

The browser you use isn't terribly important …

In some Windows-oriented environments, providing and/or defaulting to a particular browser can be very important.

… Apple is just trying to build their iOS and OS X ecosystem, but a lot of their iOS uses also use Windows …

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=21075082#post21075082 for a little conjecture about OS X 10.13 or greater. I suspect that Apple will aim to make iCloud more alluring (than e.g. Safari) to users who have an affinity with Microsoft Windows.

 

[jblagden]

I agree. And I know that Apple is just trying to build their iOS and OS X ecosystem, but a lot of their iOS uses also use Windows and are not about to move to Mac. This would help give them more control over the ecosystem there too.

Exactly! There are a lot of people who may have considered switching, but don't want to spend that much on a computer yet, or just don't want to have to learn how to use a different operating system. I guess some people who use Safari in Windows might also be unaware that Microsoft Office is available for OS X, which is kind of funny since Office has been available for Macs ever since 1997.

 

[doynton]

Exactly! There are a lot of people who may have considered switching, but don't want to spend that much on a computer yet, or just don't want to have to learn how to use a different operating system. I guess some people who use Safari in Windows might also be unaware that Microsoft Office is available for OS X, which is kind of funny since Office has been available for Macs ever since 1997.

Office was released for Mac before windows in fact (in 1989). It is just a shame that you can't run Project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office

 

[WeatherMate]

It's called Google Chrome.



I don't even like Safari on OS X. Getting rid of it on Windows was a smart move. It's not as if there aren't plenty of other choices.

Absolutely, Google Chrome with all its cross platform sync options is definitely the way to go and competing against it is surely a hard nut to crack for Safari.

 

[Traverse]

Absolutely, Google Chrome with all its cross platform sync options is definitely the way to go and competing against it is surely a hard nut to crack for Safari.

But it needs a lot of refinement. It's a resource and energy hog.

 

[roadbloc]

Apple's [Windows] software isn't exactly amazing. iTunes is just about bearable, but Safari was a complete pain. Slow, buggy and just generally not needed, it's no wonder it flopped. I'm glad Apple put a bullet in the back of it's head.

 

[KdParker]

Exactly! There are a lot of people who may have considered switching, but don't want to spend that much on a computer yet, or just don't want to have to learn how to use a different operating system. I guess some people who use Safari in Windows might also be unaware that Microsoft Office is available for OS X, which is kind of funny since Office has been available for Macs ever since 1997.

I think it is worth the cost to get rMBP for work. The best windows machine I ever owned was a mac