Safari, every mention
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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:58:55 David Rosenthal Spoiler alert, like they do to Apple for Safari today to the tune of, like, twenty billion dollars a year.
- ▶ 2:11:03 Ben Gilbert And today, aside from mostly iPhones, but Apple devices running Safari, it is the browser.
- ▶ 2:11:44 David Rosenthal So Internet Explorer has gone from 70% down to 30%, and this is both Chrome on the desktop side, but you're now also well into the rise of mobile, and so Apple's mobile Safari is now becoming huge,
- ▶ 2:12:29 Ben Gilbert Including iPhones, which all run Safari, default.
- ▶ 2:12:33 David Rosenthal Safari in aggregate across mobile and desktop of mobile is by far the biggest share of Safari.
- ▶ 2:12:44 David Rosenthal Safari has 20%.
- ▶ 2:13:33 Ben Gilbert So Safari was created for that, but
- ▶ 3:01:19 Ben Gilbert If mobile Safari was the new Internet Explorer and their entire franchise was at risk of Apple saying, and we're gonna point traffic over here now.
- ▶ 3:10:24 Ben Gilbert For Safari searches.
- ▶ 3:56:49 David Rosenthal Apple, I think only has three, maybe four, so the three Apple has for sure are iPhone, iMessage, and Safari.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:46:44 Ben Gilbert Plays out all the way to the much debated Apple Safari deal today, and the tens of billions of dollars that Google still pays to Apple in traffic acquisition costs.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 46:19 David Rosenthal And that continued from 1997 until 2003 when Safari became the default.
- ▶ 2:40:55 Ben Gilbert You know, Safari.
- ▶ 2:40:56 Ben Gilbert I don't think Safari had tabs either.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 24:07 David Senra He made Safari before the iPhone.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 31:59 Brendan Eich He kind of made Safari because he knew how to make the KHTML engine web compatible, and it was from Linux, and it wasn't battle-tested in the field against mass market users, so it didn't load websites properly.
- ▶ 32:12 Brendan Eich Eventually, that led to WebKit being forked from KHTML in 2005, but getting Dave at Apple was quite a coup for Don Melton, the manager at the time of Safari, who was also ex Netscape.
- ▶ 37:00 Brendan Eich The very first Safari had private windows.
- ▶ 38:09 Brendan Eich And that became the basis for not only what they put in Safari, but for Chrome.
- ▶ 46:13 Brendan Eich And like I mentioned, Apple gets fair credit for privacy concerns that I think came directly from Steve Jobs in Safari private windows and third party cookie blocking.
- ▶ 1:11:57 Ben Gilbert Now you're building your own native Brave wallet directly into the browser, which is totally a thing that Safari could do, that Chrome could do, and it doesn't seem like
- ▶ 1:37:29 Brendan Eich We can get people off Safari, but Safari is still privileged in Apple's OS's and kind of tied.