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Opera Says Their iOS Updates Are Still Coming - Just Slowly (twitter.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the Android-first dept.

Slashdot reader BrianFagioli has posted an update about his communication with Opera over their plans for iOS. They'd originally tweeted Thursday that "at this moment we don't have a team working on IOS which is why we haven't released any updates." But Friday they clarified that "It does not mean we give up development on iOS. It's just that now our resources are on Android." They reiterated that point in an email. We would like to clarify that Opera does not abandon iOS... We plan to keep developing it as Opera Min[i] provides unique features that other browsers do not have, such as data saving for both webpages and video, ad-blocking, built-in newsfeed etc. And people love using it. As most of the engineering resources are now on Android, our update on iOS is slow at this moment. Please bear with us and do stay tune for our next updates.
The tweet Friday also emphasized that "We will update iOS for sure."

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  1. Translation: Yeah but not really by gweilo8888 · · Score: 2

    When they say "updates are still coming", what they mean is "Yeah, we both know updates aren't coming, but we'd still rather you keep using our browser to keep our stats up for as long as possible."

    1. Re:Translation: Yeah but not really by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 4, Funny

      Funny, I read that as "Android is so shitty that we need all our programmers to work on Opera for Android. The iOS version works just fine."

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    2. Re:Translation: Yeah but not really by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 3, Funny

      Good, maybe they'll go back to making real computers instead of fashion statements.

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    3. Re:Translation: Yeah but not really by gweilo8888 · · Score: 2

      Wait, you say Android is "so shitty", and yet also that Apple just makes "fashion statements"... Ladies and gents, over here, come quick now! We've found the rare Windows Phone user in its natural environment!! Look quickly, folks, while the looking's good. They never scuttle out from under their rock for long, for fear the sunlight will melt them!

    4. Re:Translation: Yeah but not really by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 2

      Windows phone? Is that a thing?

      I know about Windows, the gaming operating system. Is that what you're talking about?

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    5. Re:Translation: Yeah but not really by EmeraldBot · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I think it's the reverse, actually. Android has both a much larger userbase and supports Blink, Opera's native web engine. In contrast, iOS only supports Apple's version of WebKit. Why would Opera want their programmers working for a smaller userbase that would require more work to achieve less functionality?

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  2. Re:Lubuntu 17.04 & Debian LiveCD's Missing Cri by jaklode · · Score: 2

    This is completely off-topic, but to clarify: net-tools has been deprecated for ages: ifconfig, route and co. were replaced by ip; and netstat was replaced by ss. ufw is an Ubuntu project, and not a standard tool, so it's really not unnormal to not be included on a Debian live disc.

  3. Re:Lubuntu 17.04 & Debian LiveCD's Missing Cri by jaklode · · Score: 2, Informative

    Please use "ip route" ("ip r") instead of "route" (and "ss" instead of "netstat"). The net-tools package is not really active anymore, modern day Linux uses iproute2.

  4. What's the point? by thegarbz · · Score: 2

    Opera presents a critical alternative to the internet ecosystem many thanks to using Presto as it's rendering engine. Given how Apple forces all browsers to effectively become a re-skinned Safari with Webkit underneath there's no point to using Opera on iOS.