
Opera browser approved for iPhone
April 13th, 2010Isn’t this cute. An app from the web browser company Opera was approved by the Apple app store today and should be available for download later today or tomorrow. That’s right, a new web browser will be available for surfing on the iPhone. Don’t like Safari? No worries, help is on the way.
Opera claims that this web-browsing application will let you surf the web six times faster than with the standard Safari browser that is available on all iPhone and iTouche devices.
“We are delighted to offer iPhone and iPod Touch users a great browsing experience with the Opera Mini app,” said Lars Boilesen, CEO of Opera Software. “This app is another step toward Opera’s goal of bringing the Web to more people in more places.”
It comes as a bit of a surprise to us because Apple can be a bunch of Nazi’s when it comes to letting apps in that compete with Apple stuff. In this case, the Apple stuff is Safari. Maybe Apple is softening up a bit and willing to let competitors throw their hats in the ring. And…..maybe not. We have a feeling that they only reason they let this in is because either they don’t see it as a threat or they see some way to make money on it.










