Filed under: Rumors, Software, Internet Tools
Rumor: Safari for Windows
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.
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
fraserdrew said 12:37PM on 6-11-2007
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)
Reply
Matt Grover said 12:42PM on 6-11-2007
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.
Reply
Colon D said 12:43PM on 6-11-2007
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.
Reply
Colon D said 12:45PM on 6-11-2007
Just noticed, it seems that rather than removing it outright, it's changed to "Webkit may be ported to Windows."
Resume the speculation!
Reply
Sam Colak said 12:54PM on 6-11-2007
Actually the whole of OSX is moving to Intel for all systems !!!
Reply
EF said 1:13PM on 6-11-2007
Actually there are already efforts porting Webkit to Windows: Swift
http://try.swift.ws/
Reply
Gene Cowan said 1:19PM on 6-11-2007
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)...
Reply
Ben Kreeger said 2:11PM on 6-11-2007
Looks like this was just confirmed! Safari for Windows!
Reply
Sejuru said 2:11PM on 6-11-2007
It's true, per MacRumorsLive WWDC coverage!
Reply
Sham The Sam said 2:14PM on 6-11-2007
very strange... this is going to take some creative thinking- lots of possibilities. but the ramifications will take some sorting...
Reply
pangelav said 2:28PM on 6-11-2007
Where's a link? We want to download this ASAP!
Reply
Macskeeball said 2:49PM on 6-11-2007
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!*
Reply
Tony C said 3:27PM on 6-11-2007
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?
Reply
brian said 4:06PM on 6-11-2007
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.
Reply
Macskeeball said 4:00AM on 6-13-2007
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
Reply