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Safari Tops 7% Of Browser Market Share, Mac OS X On The Rise

Kilamite said:
Computer illiterate people who buy a PC and just use it will be using IE. They make up a large sum of that I'd guess.
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Amen. These kinds of people don't even know what a web browser is, they just think that IE is the internet lol.

On a larger scale, it is the same reason that so many people use Windows, because that is what comes pre-installed and they are ignorant of anything better! Those that see the light buy Macs and use Safari and lead a much more satisfying and hassle free life :D

A person is smart, people are stupid!
 
glad to see safari and Mac OS X on the rise. not that I hate microsoft, i just don't like to see one company dominating everything and taking away choices. it's good to see them finally falling a little.

coming from someone who is typing this in Vista, on my macbook pro :)
 
There's nothing wrong with IE 7... well not that much wrong with it.

As a former web designer, I found IE was better at some things, worse at others. It's just another browser, they all have their quirks.

Example: FTP anyone?
 
I find the graphs at the end of this article (commenting on the 8.87% Mac share) more interesting.

It shows daily usage of OS X, with definite peaks at the weekends. The last data point is from Saturday Nov 29, showing 10.25% OS X share, compared to 8% on November 26 (the Wednesday before Thanksgiving for those not in the US)
 
Hear hear! I much prefer Safari over FF. So I'm glad Apple is fully behind it.
Never been big on any Mozilla product to be honest. There's something inherently Linux-ey about their products that I dislike.

disclaimer: yes.. that's just an opinion.

Sky Blue said:
Some people much prefer Safari? Why shouldn't Apple make their own browser?
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As this shocking graph indicates...

(Obligatory Futurama reference)
 
plinden said:
I find the graphs at the end of this article (commenting on the 8.87% Mac share) more interesting.

It shows daily usage of OS X, with definite peaks at the weekends. The last data point is from Saturday Nov 29, showing 10.25% OS X share, compared to 8% on November 26 (the Wednesday before Thanksgiving for those not in the US)
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Suggesting people choose use Macintosh at home and have to use PCs at work?

Not unexpected, but nevertheless interesting find to see it quantified.

Good find. :)
 
Lone Deranger said:
Hear hear! I much prefer Safari over FF. So I'm glad Apple is fully behind it.
Never been big on any Mozilla product to be honest. There's something inherently Linux-ey about their products that I dislike.

disclaimer: yes.. that's just an opinion.
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Yeah, I just can't get into FireFox ... Thunderbird either.
 
MacFly123 said:
On a larger scale, it is the same reason that so many people use Windows, because that is what comes pre-installed and they are ignorant of anything better! Those that see the light buy Macs and use Safari and lead a much more satisfying and hassle free life :D
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I just got to say, you really shot yourself in the foot with that argument. Mac OS X is what comes preinstalled with a mac, and in Mac OS X the default browser that comes with the system is Safari.

So how are Mac users using Safari not as ignorant as the windows users, using your own argument? They are both using what just came with the hardware they bought.
 
flottenheimer said:
Nope.

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Since when is Safari brushed metal anymore either? Apple have phased out brush metal completely. I don't have any metal apps on 10.5.5 ;)



By the way, the reason I use Safari is because it is faster than Firefox. Firefox just takes a metric ass load of time to load. Just saying.
 
vansouza said:
How can the numbers of users of IE ever drop, by a lot, when MS requires it to update their OS? I need to find out what my sister uses, she is on XP. She is typical of users who buy a system and just use what is on it.
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If you're running Windows Vista or the upcoming Windows 7, you no longer need a web browser. Windows Update is now is own separate program that no longer requires a web browser to do the update.
 
Sky Blue said:
Some people much prefer Safari? Why shouldn't Apple make their own browser?
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Some people prefer Internet Explorer. Why shouldn't Microsoft continue to improve their own web browser?

Contrary to popular belief around here, you aren't a bad person if you use Internet Explorer. You won't go to Hell, and Apple won't go out of business. Don't let people try to make you feel bad if you're an Internet Explorer user. If you don't want to use Firefox, don't let people goad you into using it. If Internet Explorer is your thing and it works for you, then that's all that matters.
 
Lone Deranger said:
Hear hear! I much prefer Safari over FF. So I'm glad Apple is fully behind it.
Never been big on any Mozilla product to be honest. There's something inherently Linux-ey about their products that I dislike.

disclaimer: yes.. that's just an opinion.
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And yet there's nothing inherently Linux-ey about Mac OS X, a product that even Steve Jobs himself has said is "very Linux-like, very much so?"
 
MacFly123 said:
Amen. These kinds of people don't even know what a web browser is, they just think that IE is the internet lol.

On a larger scale, it is the same reason that so many people use Windows, because that is what comes pre-installed and they are ignorant of anything better! Those that see the light buy Macs and use Safari and lead a much more satisfying and hassle free life :D

A person is smart, people are stupid!
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Yes, my life is so much better now that I own an iMac. Apparently, buying a Mac makes people blind Apple fanboys who are either very unintelligent, ignorant, or both.
 
The question for me is whether that percentage is the result of iPhone and iPod Touch users (who have no choice in what browser they get to use on it) or if those numbers are PC and Mac computers using Safari. After all, the browser on the iPhone is also a version of Safari. Frankly, forcing users to use Safari on the iPhone is not the most legitimate way to get market share, IMO. It's not much different than Microsoft trying to stop Netscape from being pre-installed on various manufacturers computers in the 1990's except here you thus far don't even get an option after the fact to install say Opera on it if you so desired. I realize there are conflicting stories on whether Opera actually applied or whether Apple simply told them not to bother. A similar situation exists regarding Flash and Adobe. Either way, the fact remains, I have to use Safari on my iPod Touch or not use it to browse at all. If there were a version of Firefox for it, I would probably use it instead as I use Firefox on both my two Macs and my PC running both Windows XP and Linux.
 
Apple needs to do more tricks like the QT upgrade that also included Safari.
 
NeonKingKong said:
pretty cool. I switched to firefox to escape the cataclysms of brushed metal but it doesn't handle tabs as well so i will be switching back to safari.
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Did you check out the Tab Mix Plus plugin? I find its tab handling far better than Safari's, and it's extremely configurable.


That graph is interesting - something seems to have happened since October to cause a shift in numbers. I wonder if the new MacBooks had an effect?
 
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