Shoving Safari Down The Throats Of Windows Users Works…. Safari Marketshare Skyrockets
You’ll recall that “The Steve” force fed Safari to Windows users via Apple Software Update just over a month ago. That created a bit of a backlash at the time, which led to some changes to Apple Software update to hush the critics. Well, it looks like Steve was on to something as his strategy has resulted in a massive increase in Safari for Windows users. Before the update, Safari’s marketshare on Windows was as close to zero as you could get without actually being zero (of course it was in “beta” for most of that time, so that may have had something to do it it). Then their marketshare explodes right around the time that Apple Software Update force fed it to you. The only question is, will these users keep using Safari or will the switch back to FireFox or IE?
May 2, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Explodes? Skyrockets? It grew by roughly 14/100ths of 1% up to barely more than 1/5th of 1%. One fifth of one percent of the market. It’d have to grow by 5x more just to get to 1% of the market. How is that Skyrocketing or Exploding?