Safari 4
March 1, 2009When even MacDailyNews - of all places - agrees with your article, then there’s something seriously wrong.
I’ve been spending lots of time on Mac websites the past few days since Safari 4’s release, and the community is torn. Half got used to it after a few days and thinks it’s the next best thing since sliced bread - the other half hates Safari 4’s tabtitlebar to bits. It’s not very common to see the Mac community so torn up over something. Usually only a few mouthy people disagree with Apple’s wisdom, but rarely are they with this many.
Funnily though, looking at the OSNews comments’ section - no one is actually able to refute any of the arguments put forth by the detractors. If you like the tabtitlebar, that’s fine, great, awesome - but that doesn’t mean that everyone else has to like it too, or that those that don’t like it are idiots, arrogant, or “killing OSNews”.
It just means that Apple has to go back to the drawing board - or piss off half of its userbase.
Cupertino’s choice. There’s always Camino, Omniweb, and Firefox.
Hey, not very related to this post, but since I knew you wrote this: http://osnews.com/story/20893/Mac_OS_X_Windows_7_Win_Linux_Loses
I think it would be nice to repost it again with updated data, since linux usage has grown in Net application statistics: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustom=Linux
And also don’t forget to mention Android: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustom=Android
Android is been counted separately from linux although it does IS linux. Thats was the cause of linux usage statistics have fallen last month.
Thanks!
Comment by Marco Diego — March 1, 2009 @ 11:29 pm
i really wanna buy a mac but i can’t afford it. I just read Mac News only. :(
Comment by Parantar — March 2, 2009 @ 12:22 pm
Well,big fuss for moving the tabs from one place to the other. Besides, even in the beta you can put the tab as they were in 3.X . Overlooking the other nice things in Safari,yay. I’m not a Safari user,sometimes I just forget ans start Safari instead of FF but what can I say,it’s a brand apart. Nothing special,so just move over.
Comment by Zauri — March 2, 2009 @ 6:05 pm
I must say that I only use FF, but got curious about Safari 4. So I downloaded it, but the only thing I can say about it, is that it looks cool. That’s it. At first sight, I don’t see any proper advantages. So I’ll just stick to FF for now.
Comment by Levi — March 3, 2009 @ 4:38 am