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Its amazing how consistently poor safari adoption has been.

eli 4y ago
It doesn't really run at all on Windows, the most popular desktop operating system by a huge margin.
fafzv 4y ago
Safari only runs on Apple hardware and the world at large is poor. Like really, really poor. Safari has 34.6% share in the US: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/united-states-of-america https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/united-s...
- capitainenemo 4y ago
  I was surprised that was still 22.4% even after narrowing down to desktop US https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/unit... I didn't realise Macs were a quarter of the desktop market.
  - tracker1 4y ago
    I'm not that surprised... They're not just trendy, but hardware wise pretty nice in terms of quality, appearance and battery life. I don't use it much, but my M1 Air that I got for personal use generally makes it through a week of use on road trips without needing to recharge. Hour or two of email/reading a day, about 60% brightness. I think MacOS feels a bit old at this point, but the hardware is pretty nice for what's on offer in the mobile space. I may well go framework for my next laptop in a few years though.
    - JenrHywy 4y ago
      I just bought my first Mac in ~30 years, having been all Windows or Linux in that period. I've been blown away by now nice it is - both the hardware and MacOS. Sure, there are some annoyances for a "power user" where something like showing hidden files requires an obscure key combo, but for the most part it has been a refreshing change. It's also just blazingly fast compared to the similarly priced ~3yo Dell that it replaced.
- derefr 4y ago
  Would be interesting to calculate a global "number of e-commerce dollars spent per browser."
paulddraper 4y ago
When you're the only browser that can't run on the world's most popular desktop OS or mobile OS... You're just not going to compete well for market share.

eli 4y ago

It doesn't really run at all on Windows, the most popular desktop operating system by a huge margin.

Safari only runs on Apple hardware and the world at large is poor. Like really, really poor. Safari has 34.6% share in the US: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/united-states-of-america https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/united-s...

capitainenemo 4y ago
I was surprised that was still 22.4% even after narrowing down to desktop US https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/unit... I didn't realise Macs were a quarter of the desktop market.
- tracker1 4y ago
  I'm not that surprised... They're not just trendy, but hardware wise pretty nice in terms of quality, appearance and battery life. I don't use it much, but my M1 Air that I got for personal use generally makes it through a week of use on road trips without needing to recharge. Hour or two of email/reading a day, about 60% brightness. I think MacOS feels a bit old at this point, but the hardware is pretty nice for what's on offer in the mobile space. I may well go framework for my next laptop in a few years though.
  - JenrHywy 4y ago
    I just bought my first Mac in ~30 years, having been all Windows or Linux in that period. I've been blown away by now nice it is - both the hardware and MacOS. Sure, there are some annoyances for a "power user" where something like showing hidden files requires an obscure key combo, but for the most part it has been a refreshing change. It's also just blazingly fast compared to the similarly priced ~3yo Dell that it replaced.
derefr 4y ago
Would be interesting to calculate a global "number of e-commerce dollars spent per browser."

paulddraper 4y ago

When you're the only browser that can't run on the world's most popular desktop OS or mobile OS... You're just not going to compete well for market share.