Software

Opera for iPhone Ready To Go, If Not For Apple’s App Store Policies

By Gizmodo US Edition on November 1, 2008 at 2:40 AM

Not surprising news, this, but sad nonetheless. According to Opera CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, an iPhone version of its popular mobile browser is developed and ready to go, but will likely never see the light of day due to Apple’s infamous App Store policies, barring apps that compete with the phone’s default features–here, Mobile Safari. Personally I find Safari to be pretty solid, but for those who find it crashy, an alternative would come in handy, and of course, competition is usually a good thing in situations like this. Sigh. [NYTimes, ZDNet]


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  • Janahan
    November 1, 2008 at 8:23 PM

    Far out

    Sick of shelling out money for a phone that cant do anything

    no gps?
    no copy and paste?
    everything half decent just gets blocked.

    nearly 1K for a phone thats not even half as good as a touch pro.

    great

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  • Russ
    November 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM

    I am going to have to second Janahan’s comments. The more I hear about the iPhone, the more I am glad I bought my HTC Touch Pro.

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  • stab
    November 3, 2008 at 5:50 PM

    This NY times report appears to be an exaggeration as Opera has not actually been submitted to the App Store at all!

    http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/02/opera-mini-not-rejected/

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  • jacob
    December 29, 2008 at 8:17 AM

    Awesome, keep up the good work guys

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