Today Apple has announced their Safari browser is now available for Microsoft Windows. Firstly I find this a joke as most people on windows use Microsoft IE as they don’t care about what browser they use, and those that do care about what browser they use will download Mozilla Firefox. I use a MacBook Pro for work. I like most other people I work with run Firefox on my Mac due to not liking Safari, so I can’t see how Apple think Windows users will embrace Safari.

My next grumble is one that annoyed me back when Apple first released their “I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC” videos. When you go to apple.com next to the Safari link is says “Free for Mac + PC”, but that is rubbish, I have PC at home and I can’t run Safari. The reason for this is that my PC is running Linux, which means that most things in those “I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC” videos is wrong too.

It doesn’t matter that I can’t download Safari for Linux because I don’t want it, I can run firefox on any platform I like, also I can have konqueror which is what Safari is based on. What annoys me is that Apple stuff is supposed to be user friendly, yet this misuse of terms for software and hardware platforms makes things harder to understand. It’s shouldn’t be “I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC”, it should be “I’m OS X, and I’m Windows”. Also the Safari download should say “Free for OS X + Windows”. It is after all the OS that determines what software I can run, if I am exposed to viruses, how secure my computer is and how easy it is to use my application windows and tools.

Apple please sort it out we want “I’m OS X, I’m Windows, and I’m Linux”