Web Rival Opera Asks Apple to Approve New Browser
Web Rival Opera Asks Apple to Approve New Browser
Posted 03/23/2010 at 4:14pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Opera has officially submitted their Opera Mini browser to the iPhone App Store. The general consensus is that Apple will reject the browser as it duplicates the functionality of Safari, but Opera seems confident. The browser maker is touting the speed increase saying that Opera mini is six times faster than Safari. It accomplishes this with server side rendering that compresses pages to about 10% of their actual size.
Apple has in the past approved other browsers, but they have all used the Safari WebKit rendering engine. Opera Mini is completely different. We have to wonder why Opera would go to so much trouble when it seems more than likely that the app will be rejected.
Could it be that Opera plans some sort of legal maneuvering similar to the EU complaint against Microsoft that led to the browser ballot screen? For now, the ball is in Apple’s court.
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Caboose
March 24, 2010 at 12:18pm
Oh I want to see the EU come down on Apple for this. AND not just on the iPhone/iPod, but for MacOS too!
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jakthebomb
March 24, 2010 at 8:06am
Look at all of the EU lawsuits towards Microsoft, At least Microsoft didn't block opera or Firefox. Apple is deliberately preventing competition. Apple is going to shoot themselves in the foot if they don't allow this.
gendoikari1
March 23, 2010 at 5:27pm
Opera Mini does not duplicate Safari functionality. Opera has functionality, so there go any arguments saying its the same as Safari.
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Zachary K.
March 23, 2010 at 4:21pm
why not? no one uses it anyway. now firefox, thats what they need. iphone sales will skyrocket(or just go up a bit, i am not a fricken physic).
Walnut
March 23, 2010 at 5:50pm
I highly, highly doubt that someone would decide to drop several hundred dollars + a large monthly service charge just to use a dumbed down, phone version of Firefox. In fact, I'd wager that's a totally absurd notion.
Danthrax66
March 23, 2010 at 4:29pm
Firefox is pretty bad, Opera makes a lot better of a browser and chrome is better than any other browser out there.
Zan
March 23, 2010 at 4:16pm
Isn't this the 4th browser to try and do this? Apple is the China of the tech world.
pepper_roni
March 23, 2010 at 4:16pm
apple may be a bunch of reborn Nazis, but they let weather aps through etc, this will only boost the sales of the phone and touch.
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