Opera Mini to port to iPhone, but will it be allowed in App Store?
Published: 10 February, 2010
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As its deal with Huawei shows, Opera is keeping its mobile browser strong against the WebKit products by getting it preloaded by carriers for midrange devices and mass markets. But it still believes it can also compete with the large vendors' own browsers on the high end smartphones, even without the huge benefit of preloading. It will take on the biggest challenge in this respect, by releasing Opera Mini for the iPhone - and then seeing whether it will be allowed into the App Store to compete with Apple Safari.
Mini, which shrinks web pages and compresses them for better phone-based performance, will turn up on the iPhone at MWC next week. It promises consumers that it reduces the amount of data needed to download a page, which could save money on metered data plans and offer a better experience (carriers should like the reduced burden on their networks too).
If this work is done server-side, displaying web pages via the public Mobile Safari APIs, or a screen sharing protocol like VNC, it will be hard for Apple to find a good reason to bar Opera Mini, say analysts.
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