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Opera Mini For iPhone Reviewed
Stoobalou writes "Everyone was mightily surprised when Apple allowed Opera entry to the iTunes App store, but there's one very good reason for the change of heart. Opera Mini for iPhone is not very good." I tried it for a little while, and the one thing that I really liked is how insanely fast switching tabs was.
I know I'm going to get modded to hell for being a pedantic fanboi, but it's "iPhone" - lowercase "i", uppercase "P".
Anyhow, as to your point, I think you have a valid point which you've expressed poorly. I've use Opera on the iPhone and it is notably inferior to Safari _BUT_ I could see people using it if they have limited data plans and are doing browsing while on 3G. It is fast and renders well-enough to get the job done. If, however, you're not worried about bandwidth (have the bandwidth to spare or are on wifi) or accurate page rendering is important, then Safari is going be the better choice. Any review of Opera should acknowledge it's weaknesses but simultaneously recognize it's strengths. It is an inferior browser that is very fast and utilizes much less bandwidth. There are times when that is entirely acceptable as a choice and thus it should be on people's iPhones alongside Safari. I know I'll be keeping it.
Are you fucking serious? People had their panties in a bunch because of _this_? People talk shit about iPhone's Safari because they'd rather use what you just described? Yeah, screw Apple and their crappy crap that brings nothing new to the table! Now here, here is a real contender, this Opers Mini. For starters, it's not Apple.
Oh, you're sure? Well stop the fucking presses, an anonymous Slashdot poster just told us he's "sure" that Apple has a cabbalistic agenda that involves not allowing Javascript and CSS if they could get away with it. Apple hated the user experience and arbitrarily hates web development staples as a corrolary. In fact, if Apple could they would sell people computers that don't turn on, they would! Prove me otherwise, amirite?? I'm sure you were a holdout who hated CSS, HTML4 and Javascript back in 99 and I'm sure that when Firefox started to snowball, you were on board because of it's superior rendering capabilities. Now Webkit, which is arguably better than Gecko, pisses you off because "fuck Apple lol". Why don't you let the grownups talk and stay on your outdated sidelines.