11 million Safari 4 downloads, more than half are Windows users
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... Apple announced today that in the three days since its launch, Safari 4 Final has been downloaded 11 million times. Interestingly, 6 million of those downloads were on the Windows platform. Windows iTunes owners do get a reminder that there is a new Safari browser is available, but it is still interesting to see that the browser is more popular on the Windows platform than on Mac. Obviously, with around 10 times the user base, there are many more seats out there from which to choose. ...
Safari 4 More Popular Among Window Users Than Mac
Digital Daily —
... Apple (AAPL) claims that Safari 4 is “the world’s fastest” Web browser. That may or may not be true, but certainly its speedy market share gains are impressive. Apple said Friday that more than 11 million copies of the new browser have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads by Windows users. ...
Opinion: Safari 4 download stat is pure hype
Macworld —
... I’ve felt compelled to bring a little skepticism to the exuberant reporting surrounding the latest developments from Apple. This time, all the major tech outlets are credulously reporting on this morning's press release from Apple , which heralds the runaway success of Safari 4 on the basis of ...
11 million Safari downloads? Um. Sort of
SuperSite Blog —
... Apple is no stranger to hyperbole. In fact, they sort of reinvented it, and regularly take it to new levels. The week of WWDC, you might normally expect the hyperbole to have burned out by the time Bertrand "Grima Wormtongue" Serlet disappeared from the Moscone stage in a swirl of smoke and sulfer. (See how easy that is?) But it didn't. Today, Apple announced the following dubious milestone: ...


