Category: Apple

Here come the fake blogs

I guess if Steve Jobs gets his own fake blog so should Steve Balmer.

I doubt the Steves give much thought to these blogs and likely dismiss them as childish. What’s interesting to think about is that these two fake blogs have value to some degree because neither of these guys have an actual blog. I’m not surprised that Jobs doesn’t have a blog since Apple doesn’t encourage blogging to the degree that Microsoft does.

The best way to combat a fake blog is with a real blog. If either of these guys started a blog, I doubt many people would be interested in the fake ones. But until that happens, the fakes will fill the void.

Who else should get their own fake blog? I’d like to see a fake Ray Ozzie blog even though he has a blog, but it’s seldom updated.

Safari has uphill battle

I wasn’t surprised to see Apple release their Safari browser for Windows today. I installed it tonight and played around with it for a few minutes. After visiting a few sites, I right-clicked and dragged my mouse down, forgetting momentarily that Safari doesn’t have ‘mouse gestures’ like I’ve installed on Firefox not to mentioned a few dozen other plug-ins I won’t browse without. This makes the likelihood that I’d ever switch browsers very unlikely.

iTunes became a hit on Windows because it was required to load music on your iPod, not necessarily because it’s a superior product. Does Apple feel there is a large enough audience out there who is unhappy with IE, Firefox, and Opera? Safari isn’t a bad browser, but I don’t know what it brings to the game. Maybe it loads pages faster in official, measured tests, but in my unofficial tests, it felt about the same at Firefox. Microsoft has 75% of the browser market on Windows and Firefox has 15%. I just can’t see IE and Firefox users switching to Safari. That leaves a 10% chunk for all the 3rd tier browsers to fight over.

Would Apple have the guts to bundle Safari with iTunes, the way they did with QuickTime?