Comments on: What Would Jobs Do? Not Much! http://kara.allthingsd.com/20070612/what-would-jobs-do-not-much/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:22:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rich Rosen http://kara.allthingsd.com/20070612/what-would-jobs-do-not-much/#comment-181 Rich Rosen Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:10:07 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20070612/what-would-jobs-do-not-much/#comment-181 I'm a longtime Mac user but I'm not terribly fond of Safari. On my Macs, I've switched to Firefox which brings my browsing environment in line with what I use on PCs. I like the features and add-on's and I find Firefox to be a more comfortable (and less persnickety) interface than Safari. (I know this is sacrilege...) Given that there are other alternative browsers (Firefox, Opera) that are big improvements over IE, what would make a Windows user who hasn't already gone out and gotten another browser seek out Safari? Walt recently commented that iTunes for Windows was a cleverly insidious subversive sneak attack by Apple that (in Jobs' words) gives a glass of ice water--a taste of the Macintosh UI--to people trapped in hell. I don't get that same feeling about Safari. Are people who haven't already jumped to another browser really going to care about Safari for Windows? I’m a longtime Mac user but I’m not terribly fond of Safari. On my Macs, I’ve switched to Firefox which brings my browsing environment in line with what I use on PCs. I like the features and add-on’s and I find Firefox to be a more comfortable (and less persnickety) interface than Safari. (I know this is sacrilege…)

Given that there are other alternative browsers (Firefox, Opera) that are big improvements over IE, what would make a Windows user who hasn’t already gone out and gotten another browser seek out Safari?

Walt recently commented that iTunes for Windows was a cleverly insidious subversive sneak attack by Apple that (in Jobs’ words) gives a glass of ice water–a taste of the Macintosh UI–to people trapped in hell. I don’t get that same feeling about Safari. Are people who haven’t already jumped to another browser really going to care about Safari for Windows?

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