Apple’s Safari for Windows: an iPhone tie-in and plans to take over the desktop?

Safari

I’ve been following along the Apple WWDC over at Engadget’s live blog coverage, which as expected, is great coverage. The focus is on the upcoming Leopard release as well as the Apple iPhone, but there was an interesting tidbit that affects non-Mac owners as well. Apple is releasing their Safari web-browser for both Microsoft Windows XP and Vista.

Once I got my MacBook Pro, I tried Safari, but ended up transitioningthrough to Camino and then Firefox, which is my current browser. Thenew version of Safari is touted to be faster than IE and Firefox, youcan get all of the benchmark-eting at Engadget.

The question is why?

Why does Apple want their browser on Windows PCs? My suspicion is thatit actually has to do with the iPhone, since it too has the Safaribrowser. In fact, the end section of the keynote focused on how toquickly write applications for the iPhone; remember, this is an Appledeveloper conference. Based on this bit of the presentation, I’mwondering if Apple is moving towards the Windows desktop space via thebrowser, i.e.: once developers write apps for the iPhone, can theyeasily be ported to or run natively on a Windows desktop running Safari? I’m thinking about the approach Google has taken so far here, but perhaps I’m reading into things too much.

Thoughts?

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