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Honestly, how is this a fair argument at all? And also, to make it more complete let's add in Safari. Released (as a beta) in 2003, with its first Windows vers
by ineedtosleep 14y ago
Honestly, how is this a fair argument at all?
And also, to make it more complete let's add in Safari. Released (as a beta) in 2003, with its first Windows version in 2007. The Windows version's last (read: no more releases after this) release was Safari 5.[1]
Are we to take Apple seriously since they only support iOS and OSX?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)
- Kerrick 14y agoThis is more in line with Safari 6 only being available for Mountain Lion upon launch, and taking 6 months to be available for Lion.
- white_devil 14y agoChrome, Firefox and Opera provide more than enough credibility to the argument, even if Safari no longer works on Windows. Besides, OS X has moved towards multi-touch gestures, for example, which Safari supports. It makes sense that they'd have to give up on Windows.
- dangrossman 14y agoWhy? Most Windows devices being sold have touchscreens. Most Macs do not.
- jrajav 14y agoI think you'd have trouble buying a Mac that doesn't have multitouch support today, considering that Macbooks come with multitouch trackpads and iMacs come with Magic Mouses (with desktop trackpads advertised alongside them).
- dangrossman 14y agoIf the trackpad counts, then virtually every Windows device supports multitouch too. So why is this a reason for Apple to stop supporting Safari on Windows? I don't think it has anything to do with gestures.
- glasshead969 14y agoI think it has to do with webkit2 which safari uses. I think they haven't ported webkit2 to work on windows.
- webXL 14y agoAt least I can run a recent version of Safari on a windows machine today. I don't think it's possible to run a recent version of IE on Mac OS.