Safari OS XP?

Apple's release of Safari for Windows was a minor shocker, because, rather than porting the browser to Windows, it looks like they ported a significant fraction of the OS X environment to Windows. The graphics subsytem appears to have been ported. Networking, which is just generic BSD networking, was probably ported too. I wouldn't be surprised if they emulated all of BSD as a Windows library -- that's exactly what Cygwin does for Linux.

What this means for developers is obvious: Apple may be in a position to sell a crossplatform option for XCode. That puts them in the non-market of the growing number of crossplatform Unix-Windows tools like wxWidgets, FLTK, MinGW, and Cygwin. (Not to mention the Firefox web browser.)

3/10/2008 - With the release of WebKit and the iPhone SDK, it looks like Apple is aiming to create it's own platform independent application environment.