Jason Snell
@eshwarnag @daringfireball @gruber If you’d actually read the piece I wrote, you’d see that I mentioned iTunes for Windows as a bad citizen.
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@jsnell@eshwarnag And that’s why Chrome is huge on Windows and Safari for Windows is dead.
John Gruber
Don Melton
@gruber @jsnell @eshwarnag We simply couldn’t compete with Google when they were paying everybody to bundle it and blitzing TV.
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@donmelton@jsnell@eshwarnag Really think that was it? I remember Windows users complaining re things like Mac-style antialiasing. - View other replies
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@gruber@jsnell@eshwarnag People don’t realize the Safari for Windows team, the platform engineers, was only three people. That’s it. - View other replies
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@donmelton whenever I find out how many people were on a specific team, it *always* blows my mind. It’s always far fewer than I imagined. -
@davidjoelhall You wouldn’t believe how few were on the original Safari team. :) -
@donmelton@davidjoelhall I always assume there's some random team with 5,000 people on it that nobody knows or cares about outside Apple. -
@JacobEthanWhite 5,000? Jesus! I don’t think all of Software Engineering was ever that large when I was there. +@davidjoelhall -
@donmelton@davidjoelhall Woah, what is everyone doing there then? -
@JacobEthanWhite I imagine they’re all typing like crazy! :) There’s a lot more going on now. +@davidjoelhall
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@donmelton@gruber@jsnell@eshwarnag Especially the former. People have no idea. -
@kylealden@gruber@jsnell@eshwarnag Indeed. They were spending — and I don’t get too technical here — a fuckload of money. -
@donmelton@gruber@jsnell@eshwarnag well, "were" - View other replies
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@kylealden@gruber@jsnell@eshwarnag The irony is that we were making over a billion a year in search revenue from them. Go figure.
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@donmelton@gruber@jsnell@eshwarnag Yes you could of. And no you didn't try. Only this year did safari extensions gallery got search…
David Hall
Jacob White
Kyle Pflug
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