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Apple Approves Opera Mini For iPhone

Posted by kdawson on from the game-is-afoot dept.

andylim writes "Opera today announced its popular mobile browser, Opera Mini, has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store. Opera Mini will be available in less than 24 hours, market by market, as a free download. Here's the download URL for when it goes live."

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  1. Posting from it now.... by imamac · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And it seems to be incredibly fast. However, incredibly insecure from what I've heard. Also, the iPhone auto-correct for typing does not seem to work.

    1. Re:Posting from it now.... by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 4, Insightful

      SCO is in the UNIX business and that is about it. They can't afford to effectively cease all of their traditional commerce and become a failed litigation house instead, dragging their name through the mud and trying to burn the industry to the ground.

      I never trust companies to do the right thing, no matter how insane they'd have to be to do otherwise.

      --
      "linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
  2. Re:Kudos to Opera by chrb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it hass passed without any hassle and is now available for everyone, so there's really nothing going on at all.

    Whilst the positive press around Opera's browser does certainly generate interest in it, it would be a mistake to conclude from this that Apple is a benevolent dictator which treats apps equally when they compete with its own. Did you consider that one of the reasons the Opera browser may have being accepted is because of the attention that Opera brought to the subject? It is certainly possible that Apple's decision to allow the app would have been affected by the fact that Opera is a European company involved in a high-profile ongoing EU antitrust case regarding web browsers. Rejecting the app would probably have triggered an antitrust complaint from Opera, and that is the kind of attention that Apple could do without.

  3. Re:wtf by mdwh2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thanks, that's a good point. My favourite mobile browser is Opera Mobile, which I love on my 5800; I guess the Apple phones will never have that.

    Even for Opera Mini, it's interesting to note the idea of having to wait for approval, as well as not supporting open standards like Java (again, because of the locked down nature), so they had to presumably rewrite the application for Apple. I was using Opera Mini years ago on my Motorola V980, before the first Iphone was even released.

  4. Re:Thank you... by mdwh2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Indeed - I just love that "Apple approves an application, when we thought they might not" is front page news. People are that thankful.