Calum:

> Because Apple has a vested interest in the Windows market, due to the 
> huge number of iPod and iPhone users who only own computers that run 
> Windows.  And presumably Apple feels that offering those people a 
> better, free browser alternative is a good way to entice some fraction 
> of them to use more Apple products.
> 
> The number of iPod and iPhone users who only own computers that run 
> OpenSolaris are, I'd imagine, vanishingly small.  So there is little 
> incentive for Apple to port anything to OpenSolaris.

Since OpenSolaris does not include libgpod or gpod, I'd say that iPod
support is probably pretty bad on OpenSolaris.

> (And IMHO, the Windows versions of iTunes and Safari not only look 
> rather out-of-place on Windows, but are considerably buggier than their 
> Mac equivalents.  I can't imagine any OpenSolaris versions would fare 
> much better.)

The fact that MacOS is also a UNIX platform makes me think that you
could, perhaps, expect WebKit to work a bit better than you might
expect.  Whether it would be better than the Windows version, I'm not
sure, though.

Brian

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