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Seriously, where is the Mac version? These are all your evangelists Google!
by jwesley 18y ago
Seriously, where is the Mac version? These are all your evangelists Google!
- ObieJazz 18y agoMac users don't need to be saved from IE.
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- maryrosecook 18y agoa) Why would Chrome, a browser that doesn't come bundled with PCs, save PC users from IE when they already have Firefox as an unbundled IE alternative? b) Chrome is not a competitor to IE or Firefox or Safari or any other traditional browser. It is a competitor to Windows and OS X and other operating systems that is being snuck in wearing a very unconvicing mask with a picture of a web browser on it.
- Xichekolas 18y agoTo answer your a)... Because most users don't think about their browser and hence use whatever the default is. OEMs will likely never bundle Firefox, but there is a chance that they'll bundle Chrome since it has Google's name behind it. Hence, Chrome rescues users (developers?) from IE. As for your b)... I agree totally. Chrome is nothing but an application delivery platform for Google apps that is disguised as a browser. Which is all the more motivation for Google to pursue bundling deals with OEMs.
- ObieJazz 18y agoWhy would Chrome save users from Windows when they already have Ubuntu as an unbundled Windows alternative? If the Google name gets people who currently use IE to try out something else, that's a win for web developers. Chrome is different than the other browsers in its slimmed-down interface, sure. But as other browsers, and the computers they run on, get faster and more compliant, the advantage that Chrome has over them as a client for web applications will erode. Apparently FFX 3.1 Beta 2 already has a faster js engine than Chrome's beta did.
- river_styx 18y agoIt's ironic, considering that the whole thing is based on WebKit, which is the rendering engine behind Safari and an OSS project spun off by Apple.
- jcl 18y agoIs it then even more ironic that Apple used Konqueror's code to make WebKit, and that neither Safari nor Chrome are available for Linux?
- donaq 18y agoYes, it is. At first, I thought that maybe it's because Linux hackers weren't stepping up to help with the development efforts, but then I started wondering how many Windows hackers helped out with the Windows version.
- blang 18y agoMaybe it's on the same dev cycle as Picasa for Mac.