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Opera Mini For iPhone Reviewed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the at-least-the-price-is-right dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Not very good? by rolfwind · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Common belief is that it is really because it will allow third parties to develop apps in Flash and deploy them on the web (potentially even downloading them to the iPhone), thus bypassing the App Store and Apple's cut of the money.

    That makes no sense because they are pushing HTML5 which allows the same thing (didn't Google come out with Google Voice in January to bypass the App Store?)

    They also showcased the netflix app for iPad/iPhone and that would seem to cost iTunes money for videos.

    The conspiracy theory doesn't add up.

  2. Re:Unfair Comparison by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even on smart phones, Opera Mini is useful sometimes if you need low bandwidth usage. But it's never intended to be a replacement browser for phones that already have a better browser.

    So you're saying it sucks as a browser, and it's unfair to review it as a browser, because it's not intended to be a good browser? What? Exactly on what basis should it be reviewed?

    It's a browser. If I'm reading a review of a browser, then I expect to read a review about how good it is as a browser. If it sucks, then it sucks.

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  3. Re:Not very good? by Anonymusing · · Score: 5, Funny

    The conspiracy theory doesn't add up.

    They usually don't, except to the conspiracy theorists.

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  4. Re:Not very good? by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF · · Score: 5, Insightful

    However the confusing part is that they allow the browser to use CSS, Javascript and even some HTML 5 components, thus making web based applications...

    If they could find a way to prevent this without utterly breaking the entire web or ending up looking like the Devil himself, I’m sure they would.

    Umm, their original plan was to only support Web apps as the official API. They added native APIs because so many people wanted them and because Web apps did not perform as well as Apple liked. Saying they would ban Web apps, when that was the foundation of their business plan, reeks of ignorance.