Does anyone know how Opera makes money from this version? Surely the bandwidth and computational costs of processing, compressing and sending out webpages would exceed revenue from Google search, right?
Opera Mini approved for iPhone
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Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone
#52First impressions: 1. it's very responsive. Much snappier than Safari; the difference is very noticeable. 2. pages download much quicker 3. zooming in and out is faster, but you only have two zoom levels. If you "pinch to zoom" it immediately zooms in all the way. 4. the home screen with 9 favorites works great 5. it's a little buggy (clicks don't always register) 6. killer feature #1: it automatically stores the ent…
I hate saying this, but I am having the opposite issue. It is not responsive at all; I tried clicking on any of the links and it just hangs.
Are the intermediate servers being slashdotted or something, I wonder? I'll give it a shot again later on this week I guess.
Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone
#53Does anyone know how Opera makes money from this version? Surely the bandwidth and computational costs of processing, compressing and sending out webpages would exceed revenue from Google search, right?
Well they know every page everyone visits and everything they click on, etc. What does the privacy policy say?
Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone
#54First impressions: 1. it's very responsive. Much snappier than Safari; the difference is very noticeable. 2. pages download much quicker 3. zooming in and out is faster, but you only have two zoom levels. If you "pinch to zoom" it immediately zooms in all the way. 4. the home screen with 9 favorites works great 5. it's a little buggy (clicks don't always register) 6. killer feature #1: it automatically stores the ent…
It doesn't scroll to the top of the page when you tap the status bar. Hate when apps neglect to do that.
Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone
#55Firefox mobile next?
Unlikely. Opera Mini works by doing all the rendering on the server-side, and then sending the pre-rendered website to the client. It's not actually a browser, so much as an app that gets screenshots from a server-side browser. Firefox, on the other hand, would be a real browser, running Javascript rendering and Gecko on the phone itself, which would not be allowed. That said, I don't understand why anyone would want…
what about encrypted/secured pages?
Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone
#56First impressions: 1. it's very responsive. Much snappier than Safari; the difference is very noticeable. 2. pages download much quicker 3. zooming in and out is faster, but you only have two zoom levels. If you "pinch to zoom" it immediately zooms in all the way. 4. the home screen with 9 favorites works great 5. it's a little buggy (clicks don't always register) 6. killer feature #1: it automatically stores the ent…
It doesn't scroll to the top of the page when you tap the status bar. Hate when apps neglect to do that.
It looks like you can scroll to the top by tapping the red title bar.
Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone
#57USA: it's in the app store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id3637...
Re: Opera Mini approved for iPhone
#58First impressions: 1. it's very responsive. Much snappier than Safari; the difference is very noticeable. 2. pages download much quicker 3. zooming in and out is faster, but you only have two zoom levels. If you "pinch to zoom" it immediately zooms in all the way. 4. the home screen with 9 favorites works great 5. it's a little buggy (clicks don't always register) 6. killer feature #1: it automatically stores the ent…
Maybe I'm overly accustomed to the "feel" of Apple's native apps, since there's just something about the app that just doesn't "feel" good to use.
The zooming-in and out is a big downside, as I often tweak in or out from what Safari gives me as a default when I double-tap.
The scrolling deceleration brakes to a halt sooner than native apps. Again, maybe I'm just being fickle, but if the physics don't match the native feel, then it just doesn't feel right.
Don't understand why they created their own form of copy/paste.
The zoomed-out small fonts are completely illegible. I can't even make out header or subheader text, or titles of articles.
Startup time, at least for me, was about 3 seconds, compared to immediately for Safari. I just have the 3G, and I'm sure it would be much faster on the 3Gs.
When going from vertical to horizontal view, the page does not resize. I have to reload the page for it to fit to the full width.
Despite the innovations that I was very excited for, it's the little things, the details, that will keep me from using this app. To me, good execution is in the details. Some of the things above, for me, are simply musts. An example would be a car that must feel good to sit in, have sharp steering control, easy-to-reach controls and a solid-feeling gearbox. Extra-cool features without this are non-starters. These are the things Safari gives me which Opera lacks.
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#60I wonder if Apple keeps ambiguous apps like this on hold for when they really need a PR win. Maybe we'll see Google Voice next?
20 days isn't that long though. Just think about the time it takes to get anything approved by the government...
I'd garner that approvals for an application are drastically different then government approvals. At least stringent government requirements are there for a reason.