Mark wrote:Hi Lynn,
I believe it is a marketing rather than a technical issue.
Mark
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I agree that's a part of it, however Apple could have also made Windows versions of all the other apps the iPhone synchs to and make it more of a Mac experience for Windows users for marketing purposes.
If the tech issue is actually a mute point, and I was going to choose one web browser to initially support, it would be Firefox which seems to be popular among Windows folks and Mac folks and is the most customizable with a whole plethora of add-ons not only for the basic user but the web content programmer too.
The Explorer browser specifically is in a world of it's own thanks to Microsoft. It doesn't support the established web standards that all the other browsers adhere to, but invents it's own which is why it's a pain to support by web content developers, so that particular web browser wouldn't be the one to choose in my opinion for the various platforms out there.
Also... if developers make apps that run on the iPhone that have to also interact with a web browser on someone's Mac or pc running Windows too, it would be easier if everyone were on the same page with one web browser, since a web browser is such a dynamic application... unlike a contact management app for instance.
More features may be built into Safari for the pc later on that can interact with linking to one's iPhone Safari version and Apple and outside developers would have a common technology to improve upon and to add those feature sets. That's all conjecture on my part however. Only Apple knows why for sure.
Lynn P.