Speed comes at a price, as of the cost of a 1tb SSD is $170ish versus $60ish for a 1tb hard drive, both from Western Digital. See two images I have attached to this review for benchmarks of the My Passport 1tb hard drive versus a My Passport 500gb SSD. The SSD will be significantly faster for reading and faster for writing operations. I happened to be back home here in Africa when this happened and my brother told me that I could just get a 2.5’ OEM External Sata Hard Disk Enclosure to USB2.0 (Z10) for $60.00 to solve my problem.
Unless the company takes Safari more seriously, it’s inevitable that more people will switch to other options – even though Safari has privacy features and optimizations that no other browser offers.I have a 500GB Passport WD drive which failed to be recognized by my mac laptop and my windows desktop.
This, of course, wasn’t enough to stop many users from switching to other web browsers.Īt the same time, Safari also lacks some important features that are added first in other web browsers, and some developers even call Apple’s web browser “the new Internet Explorer.” And since Safari is tied to iOS and macOS, Apple takes some time to release updates with new features and security fixes.
However, the update left some users unhappy, which made Apple revert Safari back to its old design and make the new interface optional for users. Last year, Apple introduced a completely redesigned version of Safari that unified the address bar with the tab bar. Safari is the default web browser for Apple devices such as the iPhone and the Mac, which certainly contributes to it being the second most used web browser worldwide. While StatCounter or even Apple doesn’t provide details on the reason why Safari is losing users, we can easily make a few assumptions about it. It’s worth noting that Safari is only available on macOS (when it comes to desktop), while other web browsers can be installed on Macs and Windows PCs. However, Safari has already lost its second place as the most used desktop web browser in Europe. When considering the US market, Safari still has an advantage against Microsoft Edge with 18.12% versus 12.09%, respectively.
If Safari continues to lose users, it will probably slip to the third or fourth place in the ranking over the next few months. Unsurprisingly, Google Chrome is still in first place with 65.38% of the share.īy comparison, 10.38% of desktop users were surfing the web with Safari in January 2021, which suggests that Apple’s web browser has been losing ground to other alternatives. Firefox, which had only 8.1% share in January 2021, has gained new users during the past few months and now has 9.18% of the desktop market share. While Safari is used by 9.84% of desktop users, Microsoft Edge is right behind with 9.54% market share. However, new data suggests that Safari is about to lose its second place in the ranking to its competitors.Īs shown by StatCounter (via TechRadar), Safari remains the second most-used desktop web browser in the world as of January 2022, but two of its competitors are close to taking over second place this time around. Apple’s Safari web browser has never been as popular as Google Chrome, which dominates the worldwide market share, but it has been consolidated as the second most-used browser for a long time.