Interested in (a) Safari ??

It Makes perfect sense for apple to launch itz browser "Safari" for the windows platform , but why would any windows user wanna migrate to safari when hezz got a lot others to choose from ?

The initiative of launching the browser for the windows platform seems to rely on the domino theory fuelled by infatuation . Steve Jobs must be hoping that there is a significant number of windows users who are so much in love with their ipods (me being one of them) and itunes thay they would as well download safari (anything remotely associated with apple is considered "cool" these days..) and end up falling in love with safari as well .
MAC ad campaigm where PC users are shown as old and boring whereas MAC users are portrayed as the cool and suave junta ....

But there is only one problem with that scenario . Safari sucks and i read on many forums that mac users themselves dont run it ! So why would windows users wanna migrate ?

For the windows operating system , the scene is pretty much crowded anyways . Firefox and IE are very popular and have fewer bugs and more features than Safari . And coming to the bugs part of is , point accepted , safari is still in itz beta stages , so no point talking about the bugs et cetera . But given the choices at this point in time , FireFox would still beat the living shit outta Safari . FireFoxzz getting a bot bloated these days but it still happens to be a better browser .

Many of my friends (me included) would happily ditch FireFox for IE if only IE supported many of the handy plug-ins that FF supports . Safari doesnt support plug-ins and it certainly doesnt benefit from a thriving community of plug-in developers the way FireFox does.

And obviously Apple has good reasons to launch Safari for the windows users for the fact that itz got nothing to lose . It may gain new users and since itz simply a port from the MAC OS therezz no risk of losing on anything either .


Apple is also throwing a bone to the highly anticipated iPhone developers . If developers create software for the highly anticipated gadget using Jobs Safari develoment plan, they get to run those apps in Safari on Windows for free. Maybe this is part of Apple's plan to create a plug-in platform for Safari by offering it up as a big platform for developers. And maybe in a year or so Safari will be a better browser because of the same .

So Apple has every reason to dangle Safari in front of Windows users. But right now, I dont see any good reasons for windows users to take the bait.