Safari on Windows is About the iPhone
June 15, 2007 – 11:02 amThe pundits are all a-buzz about Safari on Windows and wondering why Apple would do it.
Personally, I think it’s really obvious why Apple has done it and its not about switchers or browser market share, it’s about the iPhone.
The other announcement Steve jobs made during the WWDC keynote was that the third-party application model for the iPhone is Web applications with AJAX goodness. Want to write an application to run on the iPhone? You’re going to be doing it with web technologies.
So, now connect the dots. Apple wants people to write cool apps for the iPhone. The iPhone uses a version of Safari that likely shares a lot of code with the desktop version. Now there is a desktop version of Safari for Windows.
In other words, Safari on Windows is about providing Windows developers with an iPhone development platform. If people like the look of Safari and decide to switch to a Mac, that’s icing on the cake.
