With less than an hour to go until Steve's WWDC keynote, people are throwing rumors around faster than Daisuke Matsuzaka. Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet noticed an interesting tidbit on the Mozilla Foundation's wiki page categorized "Observations and Assumptions:""Apple may have Safari on Windows with likely ties to iTunes & .Mac"
Now, before we get all excited, let's remember that these are the "observations and assumptions" of the folks at the Mozilla Foundation. In the words of Felix Unger, "When you assume, you make an ass out of 'u' and 'me.'"
[Via Daring Fireball]
Update: Well, how do you like that? It's true. Get it here.
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6-11-2007 @ 12:37PM
fraserdrew said...
can't say its bad... more website's working well with safari, but if true, i kinda wish apple would spend more time with OS X, expecially because it's all ready going to be 6 months late (spring to autumn, must be nearly 6 months)
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6-11-2007 @ 12:42PM
Matt Grover said...
What would Apple gain from having Safari on Windows?? iTunes, we've seen the effects, iPhoto, they'd make money from the books, iWeb possibly .Mac, but Safari?? Can't see it somehow.
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6-11-2007 @ 12:43PM
Colon D said...
And it's gone! *Poof* Only mentions now are in the user sections (End User, Enterprise etc) where they claim to be better than IE, Opera & Safari.
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6-11-2007 @ 12:45PM
Colon D said...
Just noticed, it seems that rather than removing it outright, it's changed to "Webkit may be ported to Windows."
Resume the speculation!
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6-11-2007 @ 12:54PM
Sam Colak said...
Actually the whole of OSX is moving to Intel for all systems !!!
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6-11-2007 @ 1:13PM
EF said...
Actually there are already efforts porting Webkit to Windows: Swift
http://try.swift.ws/
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6-11-2007 @ 1:19PM
Gene Cowan said...
Two interesting tidbits about this: first, the article from Mary Jo Foley is a whopping six months old, so this is hardly a new scoop on the eve of WWDC. Second, a recent occurrence seems to have added some weight to this rumor: the iPhone interface change from a "Web" button to "Safari." Why would Apple take this step to "brand" Safari unless they were planning on building the Safari brand? I mean, on its own, the word Safari means something completely different to non-Mac users (and potential iPhone converts)...
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6-11-2007 @ 2:11PM
Sejuru said...
It's true, per MacRumorsLive WWDC coverage!
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6-11-2007 @ 2:11PM
Ben Kreeger said...
Looks like this was just confirmed! Safari for Windows!
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6-11-2007 @ 2:14PM
Sham The Sam said...
very strange... this is going to take some creative thinking- lots of possibilities. but the ramifications will take some sorting...
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6-11-2007 @ 2:28PM
pangelav said...
Where's a link? We want to download this ASAP!
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6-11-2007 @ 2:49PM
Macskeeball said...
Here's how they'll make money on this. Think about it. Bookmark syncing between Macs running Safari and PCs... *if you subscribe to .Mac!*
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6-11-2007 @ 3:27PM
Tony C said...
This was kind of a foregone conclusion for quite a while now... Especially since iTunes for Windows has used WebKit/Safari ever since the iTunes Store has been in operation, correct?
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6-11-2007 @ 4:06PM
brian said...
Tony C--wrong. iTunes does not use WebKit on Mac or Windows.
http://www.google.com/search?q=itunes+webkit
All others: this is, basically, the iPhone-web-app-SDK for Windows. If it weren't for the iPhone, I doubt they'd bother.
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6-13-2007 @ 4:00AM
Macskeeball said...
I've come up with a list of nine business reasons for Apple doing this (ie. what they have to gain). Anyone interested can find the list at http://macskeeball.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/safari-on-windows-9-business-reasons-for-apples-porting-it
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