News - Apple gets panned over Safari 4 download boast

[HEXUS]

The significance of a claimed 11 million downloads in three days is widely questioned.

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[Johnny Bravo]

"I just read that Apple is reporting 11 million Safari 4 downloads in just three days. That's pretty amazing. I'd like to follow up that report with one of my own. Firefox 3.0.11 was downloaded about 150 million times in the last 24 hours."

royal ownage.

Now why doesn't Mozilla do a mac advert spoof and throw that in the mix.....

[kalniel]

So the question is, if the majority of the downloads were automatic and Safari's share of the market remains both tiny and flat, what was the point of that press release?

Guess it shows there are fewer people interested in Apple's software on its own computers than on PCs, in other words, Gates was right.

[nichomach]

Let's face it, a lot of the installs will be for people being "automatically updated" after the initial carpetbombing of Quicktime and iTunes users with the original Safari install that posed as an "important update".

[handscombmp]

I wonder how many people kept using it still.

I know i download Chrome to look at it and just uninstalled it as it wasn't what i was expecting.

I wonder how may people did this with Safari after Apple made a big song and dance about it.