| Fat lady not singing on the iPhone |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Friday, 31 October 2008 | |
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Opera once tried to get the European Commission to prevent Microsoft from abusing its dominant position by tying Internet Explorer to Windows, and hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards. Featured Whitepaper
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Which left Opera looking elsewhere for market share, and doing so quite successfully it has to be said. There's the Opera browser for the Nintendo Wii, for example, complete with Flash support and the ability to play web games. But most of all there is Opera Mini, the web browser designed specifically for mobile phone and smartphone use which reformats web content to fit the small screen. Opera has managed to carve itself quite a business, quite a Mini revenue stream. It does this by charging handset manufacturers a small license fee to run the software on their phones, typically anything up to one US dollar although often much less. Apple, it has to be said, has not expressed an interest it would seem. So Opera thought it would sell the software directly to the iPhone user base via the medium of the App Store, after all that is what it is for, right? Apparently not, although pints of virtual beer are just fine. According to Opera CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner Apple has blocked the Opera Mini web browser application from appearing at the App Store, and so in effect banned it from iPhone use. So what exactly is the problem? Find out on page 2... CONTINUES |
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