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Opera Mini Not Rejected From iPhone (Yet)
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."
Lol that should have been rated funny.
Except I'm not. Is this how we're going to keep Apple on the front page like, forever? Stop the presses! OMG! Apple doesn't reject an app! Think about this, and try to see how silly you people are. What's tomorrow's headline? "Sun doesn't submit an app. Apple doesn't notice"...That's worth at least two write ups right there. Jeeze! Even idle isn't this absurd.
What?