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Re:Safari on Windows by plusbryan on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @11:15AM (#27485)
I doubt it will take any market away from IE. Those who know anything use firefox. Like the green party candidate that steals 5% of the vote and gets a republican elected, I think all this will do is take a chunk out of firefox's base.
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Re:Safari on Windows by martin on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @10:42AM (#27799)
Right. I've always wondered about Apple's reasoning for releasing Safari to begin with. If their goal was to decrease IE's market share, I'd think they would've put their browser R&D dollars into Firefox and helped to build a single, truly great alternative browser. Plus, it seems that supporting a cross-platform browser would be another way to win over Windows users to the Mac: "You can run many of your favorite applications, like Microsoft Office, and even Firefox, the world's most powerful web browser!"

Does anybody know more about why Apple took this route?

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