And, if I might say, I’m smarter than the average bear. A few days back, I pointed to – and agreed with – Mossberg’s post about how iTunes represented a trojan horse of sorts: that by inserting both its own networking and the Mac aesthetic/interface into Windows, Apple had gotten at least one foot into the world of ‘PC Guy‘. Today’s rather surprising announcement of Safari for Windows seems to suggest that Mossberg had gotten it right (which is just one more reason to hate him): Apple are slowly looking to either creep into Windows territory, or blur the very division between a Mac and Windows systems.
Many have suggested that by porting Safari to Windows, Apple have created a platform for the iPhone and its AJAX-based apps – and that alone is very smart. However, if Apple can get another few million people using Safari, I think Nav’s – umm, I mean, Mossberg’s – trojan-horse theory will prove very prescient. What will the end result be? Mac hardware sales will jump. And with a billion PCs around at the moment, even a two or three percent spike could see Apple’s revenue rise significantly. So it seems like Mossberg isn’t the only genius around…
