Linked by Kroc Camen on Fri 18th Sep 2009 18:51 UTC
You all know that I don't particularly like Opera. I find the product to be lacking polish, over-complicated and without the marketing pizazz that has made Firefox a household name. That's just my personal opinion, and that opinion has garnered many complaints of unjustness. To that end, to present a fairer discussion I would like to put a simple question to the community: "What should Opera do?".
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Member since:2009-08-20
To be honest I think Opera is going to struggle.
LOL. People have been saying that for 15 years, and yet the company continues to thrive. When Firefox entered the market, that was supposed to be the hook on the door for them. Same with Safari. Same with Chrome.
And what happened? Opera's desktop revenue NEARLY DOUBLED last quarter! It's growing massively, with a user base growth of 65% in a year! It's also closing in on 10% market share in Europe, bigger than Safari and Chrome combined!
I can't imagine users in any significant quantity installing Opera on an iPhone, an Android device or a Palm Pre.
That's beucase Opera isn't available for the iPhone or the Palm Pre (Apple and Palm won't let them or something). But it's one of the most popular downloads for Android.
Sometimes when the big players move in you have to radically change your product offering to stay relevant. This might be one of those times.
Nope. Opera is growing massively. Looks like you are just a bit ignorant about how the market works.
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2006-02-06
To be honest I think Opera is going to struggle. Years ago before Google and Apple has their own browsers, Opera had some clear ways to differentiate through speed and advanced specification compliance. Today the market is very different and the path to differentiate is much more clouded and difficult. Even in the mobile space there's so much more competition. I can't imagine users in any significant quantity installing Opera on an iPhone, an Android device or a Palm Pre.
Sometimes when the big players move in you have to radically change your product offering to stay relevant. This might be one of those times.