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Safari Killing Opera for Mac OS X?

Posted by pudge on from the mmmmmm-scapegoat dept.

analog_line writes "According to an article at News.com, the folks at Opera have given an ultimatum to Apple: Use the Opera engine in Safari or we'll have to rethink developing Opera for the Mac. While I know people who use Opera for the Mac, I find it hard to believe that Opera thinks they'll get any response other than, 'enjoy developing for one less platform.'"

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  1. Opera X dead? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Insert joke about a fat lady singing here.

  2. Re:Opera sues Apple? by jbolden · · Score: 2, Funny

    Even if you did have to buy a special version of Coke that is designed to be eaten with Fritos it still wouldn't make Fritos a monopoly. To be a monopoly you need to be in a position to restrain free trade. How if Fritos owned the entire US corn market and thus could change the price of Doritos at will; or even if they just used up lots of the country's corn and indicated they had a policy that any farmer selling corn to Doritos could not sell corn to Fritos...

  3. Re:Why all the fuss? by cappadocius · · Score: 5, Funny
    Is the sole selling point of alternative browsers really just that they're not from MS?

    Of course.Are you new here? £:-)

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  4. Oh yeah? by CptTripps · · Score: 3, Funny

    Other examples of the same ultimatum...

    Ultimatum to my neighbor:
    Start using my lawnmower to mow your lawn, or else I'm going to stop mowing mine all together...

    or..

    Ultimatum to my mail man:
    You need to use MY shoes to walk up to my house to deliver mail or I'm going to have it delivered somewhere else.

    Ultimatum to wife:
    (Yeah, like anything I write here would ever fly)

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  5. First Chimera, then Opera, next... by Lord+of+the+Fries · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tomorrow's Apple/. will probably be something like:

    Lynx developers decide to abandon Lynx port to Jaguar.

    In a surprise move, Lynx developers feeling dissed by the fact that Apple didn't use the proven Lynx rendering technology have sent iSteve an email (from pine no less!) stating that if Lynx is not demoed at the next MacWorld, they will cease the release of their nearly complete port to MacOS/X. Said key developers, "what really surprises us is that we figured with names like Lynx and Jaguar, we were certain they were destined for each other. We were sure that chosen OS/X code name was a cue to us to continue our work"

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  6. Then watch out, Apple! by Zhe+Mappel · · Score: 3, Funny
    Omni believe it or not actually is better at cool looking easy to use interfaces than Apple (which is saying a lot).
    What?! Better than faux brushed aluminum with little candy-colored dots on it?