Opera 7 to be Released for Mac OS X

hoist2k writes "CNET is reporting that Opera 7 is going to be released for Mac OS X. I might have to take advantage of their discount for buying the Mac, Linux, and Windows versions all at once!" Opera 6.02 is slated for release on Thursday (the download page currently has Opera 6.0 for Mac OS and Mac OS X, though it erroneously says it is only for Mac OS). Opera 7 is expected "soon," with no word given in the CNET articles for whether it will be for Mac OS X only.

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Fools! Heed the past!

[ihatewinXP]

When Safari was first released and the Opera team made some moronic pr statement about what Apple should do.... Well in all my years I have never once seen an issue so one sided, and this page will become a repeat of all thats been said - Opera, its good for windows, far behind the free on mac, a shitty port trying to penatrate a highly biased market.

The only way this makes any sense is to conclude that they arent making a dime on the Windows side of things and are fool-crazy and desperate enough to develop and sell something we all told them to shove up their asses.

Re:Opera is the odd man out

[squiggleslash]

I don't see why anyone would pay for it, but I do see why it would be in Opera's best interests to ensure that there is a Mac OS X version: how else are Mac-based web developers going to test their pages for cross-browser - including Opera - compatability?

You'd think that compatability with IE, Mozilla, Netscape 4 (under Classic), and Safari would be enough, but in practice every single "family" of browsers has quirks that do not immediately show themselves. Opera, for instance, has problems in Javascript if you attempt to replace a dynamically generated frame with one pulled from the net using a relative URL (ie currently the frame has a URL of "javascript: top.GenerateTheFrameHTML();" and you replace it with "/blah/wibble.html"), a problem the other browsers do not have.

There's no way, in the application I maintain, I'd have known about this without the browser on my machine to test it with.

I'll never register Opera

[truffle]

I like Opera, a lot. It's my primary PC browser and my primary Linux browser. My main computer is a mac, and while safari is my primary mac browser, I still use Opera a fair bit.

I'll never register Opera though because, even with a 35% discount for registering for multiple operating systems, I think it's just cheap for companies to charge you more than once for their software. A good example of a company that does not do this is Blizzard, who ships the Mac and PC versions of their game on the same CD.

Obviously their are additional costs in developing for multiple platforms. But there are also three potential ways to increase revenue:
1. more platforms means more potential users, and thus more sales
2. multi-platform users will be thrilled to use multi-platform software, increasing the chance of a sale
3. sell multiple copies to multi-platform users

Number 2 and number 3 are in competition. I'm not thrilled to pay for the same software 3 times over. I'd have registered long ago if it was one payment for all 3 operating systems. Personally, I think Opera would make more money if they didn't charge for multiple OSs.