The Small Wave.

Om Malik and John Gruber appear interested in what Apple’s pulling down from Google search referrals from Safari.

I’m not sure why this is; it’s not a lot of money for Apple’s bottom line, and I believe their primary goal with Safari is to help establish more web sites on open standards (e.g., not IE-specific).

Anyway, the reason I’m writing about this is I take exception to one thing Gruber mentions:

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Starting tomorrow I’m off for a week of vacation.

It’s a family thing, and I’ll be doing my part to keep Walt Disney’s ghost rich (after all, the man built an empire, somebody has to feed it).

Will probably not post anything new until at least 4/13.

But wait! As I write this small post, a funny thing happens…

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Yesterday I stated my position on Apple’s use of their Windows Software Updater to “update” Safari on systems that don’t run it. Many other bloggers, analysts, etc. posted their positions as well.

There’s been a lot of debate about it, so today I thought I’d take a second look by reviewing some of the recent commentary on this topic…

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The mid- to late-90s seemed to be the heyday of software vendors deciding that if you ran one of their products, you’d want a bunch more as well. In my opinion, it was not Microsoft, but Real, that typified this behavior and annoyed me greatly.

Even when all I wanted was their media player, it seemed I was stuck with their little message center and other crap. Turning it all OFF was a pain in the rectum, and in my opinion should never have been necessary. It made me hate Real, and I’ve yet to install any more than the minimum software of theirs needed.

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I’ve been running the betas of Safari on Windows ever since they came out. Overall I like Safari on Windows though it’s bit sluggish, which I attributed partially to being a beta.

Today Apple released Safari 3.1 on Mac and Windows. My primary interest was on Windows, where I still use Firefox most of the time.

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In my first review I listed the good and bad of my experiences running the Safari beta on Windows XP. Following are some updated or new comments and findings.

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[UPDATE:] I have posted part II of this review, with further good points, bad points, and Firefox comparisons.

I’ve been using Safari since the public beta became available on Monday. In that time I’ve had enough experiences to comment on.

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