Just so you know, hours after its release, there were security holes discovered in it, from denial of service to remote code execution.
Can you confirm whether it is a major resource hog as many stories have indicated?
Safari for Windows explained Iphone enablerBy Charlie Demerjian in San Jose: Thursday 21 June 2007, 08:06 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN wondering why Apple released a buggy and insecure version of Safari for Windows last week. The answer is obvious, the Iphone needs it. The cult of Apple fanbois seems to be focusing on the perceived good parts of the phone, and in their rabid online frothings always ignore the bad parts, and they are very bad indeed. The phone is a chirping and expensive yet still slow hunk of DRM infection. Yes, the deep dark secret of the Iphone is that it is totally locked down, much more so than an ordinary phone. It uses secure boot. Basically any OS image not signed off on totally will not be allowed to boot by the hardware itself. Without an OS, it won't run programs, hacked or legit. You are locked out of your own hardware by the hardware itself. Apple is a company based on control freakery and knowing what is best for you, be they right or not. The recent DRM 'change of heart' was nothing more than a cynical ploy to raise prices and dodge a bullet from the EU. Its other two Apple product lines, the OS and the Iphone both base their very existence on DRM infections. So, why Safari for Windows again? Because Apple locks out third party devs on the Iphone, and you can't get around it. Unlike the Ipod, there will be no alternate firmware or ways around the blocks, you are hardware enforced SOL. The only way to run anything on the Iphone is via Safari on the Iphone itself. If you want to run those same programs on your PC, you need one that has Safari on it, until recently that meant Apple. To support the cross-platform apps Apple is building, they could either make them work with the other 97% of computers out there, or use the Iphone as a lever. Guess what? It is trying to use the Iphone as a lever to push a new app dev platform onto PCs. Remember that little company that tried to do this last time? It was called Netscape or something if memory serves. In any case, the launch of Safari is nothing more than a support platform to lessen the blow of a DRM infected and locked down Iphone platform. I think it will still blow, but that is just me, DRM is never a good thing, but fanbois being fanbois, they are too dumb to notice. If you were thinking that Apple was trying to win people over with a third rate browser, think again, this is nothing more than saving the cost of a software CD in the Iphone box while spreading the disease. µ
