My short interpretation of Alex Russell's post (or certainly in my mind):
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Apple have a monopoly
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Safari, for over a decade now, been way way behind
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Safari is not a modern browser - this is literally what devs and designers complained about IE6 for years.
Still, read Alex's post - it's packed full of data (as usual) and draws a clear conclusion that Apple, again, are delaying progress for the world wide web.
Source: infrequently.org