Linked by David Adams on Wed 29th Oct 2008 20:55 UTC, submitted by Geir Johasen
An interesting NYT Bits blog entry covers Opera's mobile browser. Buried in the middle of the article is this quote: "Opera's engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won't let the company release it because it competes with Apple's own Safari browser." It also talks about Opera on the Wii and browsers in cars. A good read. My Take: But back to the iPhone. As tempted as I am to just shrug it off, since Apple is free to run its App Store any way it pleases, as an enthusiastic iPhone user, I think Apple is shooting itself in the foot here, as it is with all the "competitive" apps being rejected. Apple does stand to lose some Google revenue by letting people use other browsers, but they have much more to gain by unleashing the creativity of the developer community and giving them the freedom to improve or replace core iPhone functionality. Hopefully competition from Android forces them to wake up.
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exactly. If you don't like apple's rules, make something better and have your own say.
That's what firefox is doing to IE and that's what Android should hopefully do to iphone.
That's what firefox is doing to IE and that's what Android should hopefully do to iphone.
I use and I like Opera a lot, and it is, IMHO, the best and finest browser on the field right now, they took care a lot on details, and such details really matter.
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2006-09-30
make an Haiku version instead ?
we'd certainly not turn it down