Apple rejects the Opera Mini for the iPhone
It is sad news for Opera fans. The Apple App Store has rejected the Opera Mini application developed by Opera engineers for the iPhone. It has been rejected on the grounds of duplicating functionality. Apple executives claim Opera Mini is similar to the Mobile Safari on the iPhone. The features of the Mobile Safari are simply fantastic.
Users of the iPhone can pinch-in/double click to zoom out and pinch-out/double click to zoom in,. Users can open upto eight tabs on their screen and can use as a Word/Excel document and PDF reader. The Mobile Safari is actually the fastest mobile browsers available in the market. Users feel that they should be provided the opportunity to try out other web browsers on their iPhone so they can have a totally new web browsing experience.
The Opera Mini web mobile browser is very popular and is already available on many smartphones, like the HTC P3450, but Apple simply would not allow it to be featured on its iPhone. The Opera Mini mobile web browser has the capacity to interpret codes and this is something Apple will not allow on its iPhone. The Opera Mini can be run on any operating system like Symbian, Windows Mobile and even low-end systems that run only Java-based applications.
Not only is it easy to install, it is also intuitive. That is what makes it a favorite contender as an alternative web browser for the Safari on the iPhone. While many users of the iPhone feel tat Apple should allow Opera Mini on the iPhone, Apple does not think so and has categorically rejected the proposal.
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First, this is old news dating to november last year.
Second, if you’ve done a little bit of research you’d known that Opera never actually submitted Opera Mini to App Store because the reconed it’d be rejected. They admitted this in a second interview with the NYT reporter.
Thirdly, Opera Mini was not rejected because of “duplicated functionality” since there’s no clause in the SDK that mentiones this, and Apple has never rejected software because og this(there’s no actual cases of this happening, just a lot of rumours from people like you citing other peoples opinions). In fact, if you do a bit more research, you’ll find only a handfull (ie less than 10) of known cases of applications rejected by App Store.
So to sum it up: Absolutely nothing in this “news” bulletin is correct (other possibly the spelling of “Apple”).