Safari

Safari is a web-browser developed by Apple to be used for searching and browsing the Internet. Safari was released in June of 2003, where it replaced the default web-browser of Macintosh computers. Safari is currently designed as an application for computers as well as mobile devices, specifically iPhones, iPods, and iPads. Apple bridged the Safari experience of all the devices together in a WWDC announcement in 2012. This meant that the user would be able to switch between devices and continue on the same single task.

Impact on the Web
Using an iCloud account, Apple has been able to synchronize content such as personal bookmarks, reading list material, and opened websites across all of a user's devices. Safari can also save personal information used on websites, such as usernames, passwords, billing information, and credit card information. Using a service called iCloud Keychain, Safari can update passwords across devices to prevent a user from inputting a new password as many times as he or she owns device.

A recent upgrade to Safari has added the ability to collaborate with colleagues on Apple's suite of web-based productivity applications: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. This is perhaps the most attractive feature of a web-browser, which Google Chrome focused on almost from the beginning of development.

This impacts the web in a way that helps to propel the evolution of Web 2.0 into Web 3.0. Collaboration and sharing have been the cornerstones of web as we know it today – Web 2.0. Adding to these features, the ability to synchronize personal information such as password, credit cards, and billing information gives the user a more personalized web experience unlike any other. The web-browser provides the support necessary to facilitate the transfer of personal information from one device to another, which sets up Web 3.0 to become an almost personal assistant for the user to access wherever he or she goes.