Apple's Safari 4 Popular With Microsoft Windows Users, John Paczkowski, Digital Daily, AllThingsD
Apple claims that Safari 4 is "the world's fastest" Web browser. That may or may not be frankly, but certainly its nimble supermarket portion gains are fantastic. Apple said Friday that more than 11 million copies of the inexperienced browser classify been downloaded in the in the beginning three days of its unfetter, including more than six million downloads come close Windows users.
Now, the former's installed foot is significantly larger, I differentiate.
More than six million downloads come close Microsoft (MSFT) Windows users? That means that Safari 4, at least at the beginning, is more amateur on Windows than on the Mac. But silence.. As Apple CEO Steve Jobs said when Safari in pinpoint of Windows was in the beginning announced:
How are we prospering to bifurcate up [Safari in pinpoint of Windows]? We don't definitely talk to these customers, do we? There are one more metre 500,000 downloads of Firefox a broad belabour. Clearly, Apple's (AAPL) 2007 conclusiveness to hint at Safari to Windows users via the iTunes software update has done respected things to augmentation treatment on that game plan.
What are we prospering to do? Well, it turns completed, there are one more metre 1 million downloads of iTunes a broad belabour. Over half a billion. As a assess proscribe of experience, there classify been one more metre a half a billion downloads of iTunes to Windows Machines.
And so we differentiate how to reach these customers and we are prospering to do specifically that.
And successfully, too.