He keeps criticizing Apple’s product on every ground, while he doesn’t understand the target market for apple product.

Sorry, but this whole article takes cheap shots at someone who made a decent review of a beta (keyword, beta) product. I have also tried Safari 3 and 4 on my computers and it is NO way faster or slower than Firefox or IE8. If you actually waited until he did a review of the final product you would realize he was much more on Apple’s side–I’ll admit the beta was pathetic while the final product was somewhat usable. But why the heck would you do that? Instead let’s just lambast someone for doing a decent review.

Let’s be realistic though for a moment–we can be realistic at the Apple Blog, right?–Safari is designed for the Mac OS, it is “re-designed” for the Windows OS, and guess what, Apple, for one of many reasons, doesn’t make as great of software for the Windows OS as they do for their own OS, go figure. When I use a Windows program I don’t want it to look like a Mac OS X program, it may look great on the Mac, but guess what? It doesn’t on Windows. Of course, there are plenty of realistic reasons for this, they don’t know the Windows code as well as their own or perhaps they just don’t want to put as much time and effort for a non-Apple platform based web-browser, completely acceptable. Never-the-less we must realize that Apple products for Windows are nothing special. If anything I would prefer Google Chrome’s look and feel to Safari 4′s, and that’s saying something.

I realize that this is an Apple Blog and most people here drink the special Kool-Aid that Steve Jobs and his fine people at Apple mix up, but at least keep an open-mind out, there are people that don’t think Safari is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to technology. If they write a review that accurately takes the negative points of Safari and talk about them–while at the same time looking at the positive takes–then let them be.

Oh, and yes, the whole TV and PC monitor thing, there is a difference. Software should be specifically designed for PC’s or TV’s. Not sure about you guys, but I use my TV from a distance, typically with a remote. I use my computer with a mouse and keyboard. Certain interfaces work better with one or the other and, well, so it seems Safari 4′s navigation for favorites and history would work much better in a TV-type setting. So when Paul Thurrott states that it looks better on a TV he is simply saying it would be easier to navigate on a TV.

There I’ve said my share. Hopefully we can all have a more open-mind towards both Apple and Microsoft products.

Daniel

What’s his logic here? Am I missing something?

A nicely written article, though I do not agree to a couple of points

Cheers,
Vyder

“the Dock is a usability nightmare, with overlapping functionality (it contains shortcuts for both running and certain non-running applications”

Is that not exactly what Windows 7 does? Oh wait, I’m sorry, in Windows 7, it “minimizes the number of UI locations you need to visit to get work done.”

Shut up.