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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Member since:2005-06-29
Some of the more hardcore Apple fans (I loathe the term "fanboy" in any context) would label him a hater because he didn't say a prayer to Jobs with every post, despite his "I'm a Mac user" qualifier.
No matter what your personal stance, when you post an opinion online there's an inevitable crowd of zealots champing at the bit to cry heresy at you. They're like zombies; you can't escape them short of joining them, and then your brain turns to mush.
Oh, and I'm a Mac user too. :-)
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2006-06-19
He did that so someone wont just label him as an apple hater. He's just proving that he likes other Apple products but disagrees with this policy.