Apple was highly criticized in March for duping Windows users to install Safari Web Browser by including it as an update in Apple’s Software Updater. If you had any Apple Software, it would automatically download Safari 3.1 as an update, even if you didn’t install Safari on your Windows machine. As a result, large number of iTunes users downloaded Safari 3.1 unintentionally.
I was left wondering, whether users would actually try Safari as their web browser in Windows. It turns out that this strategy worked for Apple, and Safari’s browser share has tripled in a month! Here’s a graph from Net Applications:
Safari 3.1 which had 0.07% market share in March 2008, jumped to 0.23% in May. This jump is relatively small compared to Internet Explorer or Firefox, but still Apple managed to triple the market share in a month, which is quite astonishing. Should Apple be appreciated or criticized? Tell us through comments.
[via: CyberNet]



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