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Opera For iPhone To Test Apple's Resolve
Barence writes "Opera is launching a version of its Mini browser for the iPhone in what could prove a landmark decision for Apple's app gatekeepers. Apple has been traditionally hostile to rival browsers, with Mozilla claiming that Apple made it 'too hard' for its rivals to develop a browser for the iPhone. However, Opera remains bullishly confident that its app will be approved. 'We have not submitted Opera Mini to the Apple App store,' an Opera spokesperson told PC Pro. 'However, we hope that Apple will not deny their users a choice in web browsing experience.'" I can't imagine what would motivate them to do that.
But it's not an end-to-end encrypted connection - there are two, one from the server to Opera's servers and another one from their servers to the browser. Would I trust Opera Software to be an intermediary in all transactions I did online with visibility of all of my secrets? In all honest, probably not. But that might not stop me using Opera - it would just stop me from doing anything that I want to keep reasonably secret on it.