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]
Janahan
Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 8:23 PMFar 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
Russ
Sunday, November 2, 2008 at 4:00 PMI 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.
stab
Monday, November 3, 2008 at 5:50 PMThis 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/
jacob
Monday, December 29, 2008 at 8:17 AMAwesome, keep up the good work guys