Comments on: Apple rejects Opera Browser, not surprising, but still upsetting

By: ColinS

ColinS — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:19:37 +0000

Have we any word from Opera’s developers stating these news reports are accurate, or is the only source this one second hand report all we have to work with. Personally I like to have things confirmed by a second source prior to assuming we have all the facts.

Check out this article http://daringfireball.net/2008/11/opera_app_store, his argument seems more likely, and if true, Apple’s decision more reasonable.

By: Joe Anonymous

Joe Anonymous — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:33:17 +0000

Why would I want to use software written by a company that’s not even smart enough to read the SDK rules before investing money in development?

By: thomas

thomas — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:57:39 +0000

Safari on the Mac is useless? Funny, I don’t use anything else and have successfully used the internet a lot of times. I’ve even posted this very message with Safari! Define ‘useless’, please.

By: AdamC

AdamC — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:41:11 +0000

@Gary
I used to use Firefox and it got slower and slower, I don’t know about the latest because I have not went back.
Safari is for me and I am using the webkit, it’s fast and it has built in spell check. I don’t need extensions to enhance Safari. It is stable enough for me because I restart my Mac every few days.
Anyway to each his own.

By: jb

jb — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:46:50 +0000

This is just silly.

Safari isn’t a terrible browser, but going out of your way to lock customers into it is just ridiculous. As a desktop platform, I love Mac OS X and Apple hardware — but I run Camino as a browser.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I had little problem with Apple not allowing (or providing tools) for any third party development on the iPhone. But picking and choosing the way it has is silly — especially given the amount of pure crap in the App Store.