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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by sorenjan on Friday March 13, 2015 @03:44PM (#9199524)
Apple released Safari for Windows less than three weeks before the iPhone went on sale. As you may recall, the first iPhone didn't allow third party native apps and instead used web apps with shortcuts on the home screen. Safari for Windows was most probably mainly meant as a Webkit based browser for developers.
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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by jakobegger on Friday March 13, 2015 @05:03PM (#9200018)
I don't think it was about web apps at all. Web apps where just an interim thing while they were working on getting the SDK ready. I think the reason for Safari on Windows was to make sure that normal websites work on the iPhone.
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