“Oh, and one more rant — Apple: We don’t need another web browser for Windows.”

Yeah because we like living in the dark ages using compromised bug riddled crapwarez like IE.

Windows doesn’t need another web browser? I suppose it doesn’t need another one, but since when is the choice of another one a bad thing?

Nothing says you, Aaron, have to use it. Maybe others would like to use it. There are things that differentiate it, and that may or may not be your cup of tea, but why get mad because there is another option out there?

Steve

With my software developer hat on, I agree with the spirit of what ‘slaws’ suggests — that we need to protect the clueless.

I don’t blame them. For everything I know about computers, I know one less thing about how the engine in my car works. I don’t worry about it. I get in and go. Many computer users just want to understand their computers at the same level.

I wish Apple would find a way to entice more users to actually USE Safari. While Apple may get Safari on windows boxes, it doesn’t mean that those users will actually use it. Yes, you read that right, despite what you’ve heard or read, having Safari on your hard drive doesn’t force you to use it.

I am a web developer and my biggest wish is for Safari, Firefox, Opera and IE to each have a 25% share of the browser market.

This guy said it better than I could:

http://mymacinations.com/2008/04/19/on-the-safari-for-windows-controversy/

@Ella – if browsers were standards compliant — and implemented the standards identically, AND they were all bug free, then I wouldn’t mind having more than one browser.

But, why do we need more than one browser if they all implement the same standards identically and all perform adaquately? Or — why would any typical web user care? I don’t need more than one web browser. Plug-ins? Average users don’t use plug-ins.

I guess we have different understanding of the words ‘Force me’.

Apple is not forcing you. You can uncheck the box and if that annoys you to do too, you can select ‘Ignore update’ from the menu and you should never see Safari again.

So as far as I can tell, the choice is indeed yours. The only thing they’re forcing you to do is to make your choice.

I completely understand why you don’t like Safari, it doesn’t look like a windows application and looks out of place. I bet if Apple made it using Windows native widgets, then more people would accept it.

But that doesn’t change the fact that they’re not wrong in offering it.

I think one of the main concerns is that the updater will pop up demanding your attention while minimizing whatever you are doing (Fallout 3 in my case) to demand that you install Safari. That is my biggest greif with the thing is that even if there are no other updates, it will still bother me because I have not full consented to using all of the apple products that are supported.