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Opera Mini Not Rejected From iPhone (Yet)

Posted by kdawson on from the fat-lady-sings dept.

danaris writes in to inform us that John Gruber has done some digging on the reported rejection from the App Store of Opera Mini, and has written up his findings. Some choice excerpts: "My understanding, based on information from informed sources who do not wish to be identified because they were not authorized by their employers, is that Opera has developed an iPhone version of Opera Mini — but they haven't even submitted it to Apple, let alone had it be rejected. ... If what they've done for the iPhone is [to get] a Java ME runtime running on the iPhone — it's clearly outside the bounds of the iPhone SDK Agreement. ... What Opera would need to do to have a version of Opera Mini they could submit to the App Store would be to port the entire client software to the C and Objective-C APIs officially supported on the iPhone. It could well be that even then, Apple would reject it from the App Store on anti-competitive grounds — but contrary to this week's speculation, that has not happened."

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  1. Re:Why... by AKAImBatman · · Score: 3, Informative

    Correction to myself. I misunderstood what the author was saying. He was saying that Opera Mini is a JavaME browser, not that anything other than Opera Mini is a JavaME browser. My mistake.

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  2. Re:Why... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Informative

    See, that's also confusing. When you have a fully featured browser already in the phone, why compete with a substandard browser that's incapable of surfing anything more than static sites?

    I can clearly see that you've never used Opera Mini. I've used Opera Mini to read and post on Slashdot. It works just fine.

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  3. Re:Why... by hkmwbz · · Score: 3, Informative

    Opera Mini is faster because it gets highly compressed data. It's also a lot cheaper if you pay per MB.

    It doesn't make any sense. Unless it's a publicity stunt. That's the only answer that makes a lick of sense.

    Nope. Opera Mini actually has a place on the iPhone because it offers something truly unique with its compression. That makes it cheaper and faster than Safari for a lot of people. And besides, Opera Mini was ported to C/C++ more than a year ago, and considering that Opera Software makes a living porting browsers, there's no reason to doubt that it was ported.

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