Shock! Apple Approves Opera Mini for iPhone
Actually, I was surprised. According to the standard Apple app policy, they won’t approve 3rd party apps that offer a feature that is already built into the iPhone. So allowing the Opera browser was not expected by almost all the tech pundits.
For Apple to reject it now amidst all the Adobe vs Apple wars was probably going to add more fuel to the raging fire, so they must have thought love and hard about approving this one.
Now that I have installed (and already uninstalled it) I can see why they OK’d it: it’s so inferior to the built in Safari browser Apple knew it wouldn’t be a real threat. Go figure. (Maybe the guys at Opera were thinking that it probably wasn’t going to make the approval process and minimised their dev efforts for version 1. Well, it shows. I’t clunky, not fast - even though that’s what Opera was always good at - speed.)
Oh well, better luck next version.
Source: slashgear.com
