Well decent is relative I suppose. Hundreds of millions of windows users and 6 million using safari isn't a huge number. Was the number 8.43% including mobile?
Perhaps I wasn't clear, a new version of safari is shipping with snow cat, this version of safari won't run on earlier versions of os x. On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:27 AM, David K Watson <davidkirkwat...@gmail.com>wrote: > From: mike <xha...@gmail.com> >> >> I like how once again Apple is forcing users to upgrade their OS if they >> want to run the newest Safari. Good thing they have no market share to >> speak of. >> > > It looks like either you or somebody you read saw that one option for > getting Safari is via the Software Update panel, and concluded that > Safari required an OS update. It doesn't. For Mac users, Safari 4 is > available through software update or as a standalone installer for both > Tiger and Leopard. For Windows, it runs on XP forward, same as > Safari 3. > > There is the one issue that Top Sites and Cover Flow won't work > on some older machines if they have an insufficient graphics card, > but that's not an OS issue. > > Safari had an 8.43% browser share as of May, and Safari 4 downloads > topped 11 million (more than half of them for Windows) in its first three > days of availability, so they DO have a fairly decent market share. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
