I've been trying out Chrome since it came out and I must say I'm unimpressed. I don't really care whether Google releases a Mac version or not. We already have the best browser in the world, and its called Safari. Without any further ado I present my 5 reasons by Safari Rocks Chrome.
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1. Because it runs on a Mac
This one is an obvious one but it is worth stating clearly. Back in the pre-OS X days us Mac users could put up with (we had to!) software being Windows only first and Mac a year or so later. Not so now. Apart from Safari we have a slew of browsers to chose from that are Mac only and are great. If Chrome is released for the Mac you can bet it will just be a pretty plan-Jane port, not taking advantage of all the built-in goodness OS X has to offer.
2. Because it is what Steve uses
I'm no fanboy (wait, I publish a site that has over a couple of thousand articles and over ten thousand comments, have a collection of over 30 Macs....) but I have a simple philosophy in my computing life--use what Steve uses. Now granted I don't every detail of what software Steve Jobs uses but I'm pretty sure his web-browser of choice is Safari. What that means is that I'm using a product that the best product designer in the world uses day-in and day-out. And I like that. Just like I appreciate that Steve's DNA (and Apple's of course) is in the computer and phone I use I like the fact that Safari is an Apple product. It surprises me and delights me in ways I don't always expect and is part of the Apple user experience
3. Because Google is going to track everything
I'm no privacy wonk. I twitter (all tweets are indexed by Google). I show up in multiple pages in Google search results. But I trust Google as much as I trust Microsoft and I'm more scared of them because they appear to know what they are doing. I've turned off Search History in my google account (you probably don't know, but unless you opt out Google stores all of your searches as a 'service' they call Search History) and have already learned that one of the coolest features of Chrome is just another way for Google to collect information about me. The feature is a URL fill-in feature. You know how when you enter a url in Safari that you've been to before it will autocomplete the url for you. Chrome does the same thing except for sites you haven't been to. It is obviously doing this by querying the search engine as you type urls. Cool! That was my original reaction to until it became clear that Google (of course!) would collect this as yet another data point for user behavior.
Apart from this simple example I just don't have the patience to read through the user agreement, the many blog posts interpreting said user agreement to figure out what the heck Google is up to. Do I blindly trust Apple to not do the same with Safari? No. But I know it isn't in Apple's business model to track every click I do. Plus, they are probably too busy trying to fix Mobile Me anyway.
4. Because it is better
Chrome is a clunky browser at best. It appears Google engineers spent all their time figuring out how to collect all of our data and little time working on a great UI. When I first installed it I thought I made a mistake, the thing is so threadbare as to appear to be a mistake. Sure there are tabs, but that is about all Chrome has to offer over Safari. No integration with Mobile Me and a paucity of preferences are what you have to look forward to after install. Oh, and private browsing? Don't make me laugh!
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5. Because it already uses WebKit
Perhaps the greatest indication that Google is not interested in true innovation in the browser space is that Chrome uses the same engine as Safari. That's right, good-old-webkit is the thing that powers Chrome. Which makes one wonder why bother? Why bother indeed.
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What do you think, would you use Chrome if Google released a version for OS X?
The great Intel sell-out is now complete with Apple today revealing the new Mac Pro workstation. The Mac Pro - codenamed 'Hero', incidentally - runs on a pair of Intel's latest dual-core Xeon server processors, giving it plenty of horsepower to handle the clunky Safari browser. The box offers up twice the performance of older IBM chip-based Power Mac G5s.
Apple's black-shirted crusader, Steve Jobs, revealed the system to customers at the company's developer conference in San Francisco. 'Today the Power Mac is going to fade into history,' he said, going on to describe the Mac Pro as a 'beautiful machine.'
Apple has now finished off its switch from Power architecture chips over to Intel's x86 processors. But it wasn't all hardware at the developer conference today. Apple also talked up its upcoming 'Leopard' version of the Mac OS X operating system.
Before we get to the spots, let's have a look at the Mac Pro. The shiny kit boats a pair of Xeons (2GHz, 2.66GHz or 3.0GHz), eight FB-DIMM memory slots, support for the latest Nvidia and ATI GPUs, four hard drive bays and a 16x SuperDrive. There's also an additional, open optical drive bay if you happen to need another SuperDrive.
The system starts at $2,499 for a 'standard' configuration but dips to $2,199 with the 2.0GHz chips.
To complement the desktop box, Apple also announced a new version of its Xserve server that also runs on the fresh Xeons from Intel.
'Configurable with two Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors running either 2.0, 2.66 or 3.0 GHz, the new Xserve supports up to 32GB of 667 MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM memory with twice the capacity and three times the bandwidth of the Xserve G5,' Apple said. 'Two eight-lane PCI Express expansion slots provide up to 2GB/s of throughput each to support the next generation of fibre channel, networking and graphics cards. Apple delivers industry-leading storage flexibility with support for up to three 3Gb/s SATA or SAS drives that can achieve an unrivaled 2.25TB of hot-plug storage in a 1U server while advanced thermal management capabilities take advantage of the low power of the Intel processors, running as low as 65W.'
This system will start shipping in October at $3,000 and up.
On the Leopard front, Apple has found another nice way to poke fun at Microsoft. While talking up Leopard, Apple executives made sure to point out how Microsoft's upcoming Vista operating system copies a number of features already found in Mac OS X.
With Leopard, which is set to arrive in the spring of next year, Apple should extend its lead over Microsoft. The company today showed off an application called Time Machine that will handle automatic data backups and restores. Leopard will also include full native 64-bit software support, anti-phishing tools in Mail and Safari, an automatic firewall, new parental controls with time limits and remote administration, a faster version of the Spotlight search tool (which puts things such as Google Desktop to shame), and a refined version of Boot Camp.
With Leopard coming out and the Intel shift complete, Apple will be under more pressure than ever to show that it can take back some meaningful market share from Microsoft and the PC crowd. A lot of the performance and price knocks against Apple have been lessened via the Intel makeover. And it's pretty clear that Microsoft remains in catchup mode on the operating system front, even after Vista ships.
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Of course, there's nothing horribly wrong with remaining the BMW of the computing scene. But you'd have to believe Apple would like to make the most of its chip transition and possible iPod carry over sales.
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On a historical note, the completed Intel capitulation would have put a smile on Intel co-founder Bob Noyce's face were he alive today. Noyce was one of the first investors in Apple, and Jobs used to sleep on Noyce's couch.
As Noyce's wife Ann Bowers recalls in Leslie Berlin's biography on Noyce The Man Behind the Microchip,
'Steve would regularly appear at our house on his motorcycle. Soon he and Bob were disappearing into the basement, talking about projects.'
Noyce treated Jobs 'like a kid, but not in a patronizing way. He would let him come and go, crash in the corner. We would feed him and bring him along to events and to ski in Aspen.'
As Jobs tells it, 'I remember him teaching me how to ski better. And he was interested in - fascinated by - the personal computer, and we talked a lot about that. Bob was the soul of Intel, and (he wanted) to smell that second wonderful era of the valley, the semiconductor companies leading into the computer.'
And what a smell it was. ®
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