Apple has everything to lose by not approving the browser to the iPhone.
Fifty one million iPhone users will now not be allowed to use other browsers than Safari, or a couple of varieties that are only bodies.
So is it because Apple has decided that no one should be allowed to offer programs that copy the features they offer in your mobile phone.
A colleague once described the App Store and the ecosystem around the iPhone as a homeowner. Here is what Apple decide. Either follow the rules, or so simply go away. There is a strict child rearing, "he said.
Some of the rules are for the benefit of customers. It is to live with that Apple hatches out apps with code errors, and even better that it prevents viruses and malware.
But when the rules are used in a pitiful attempt to deny competitors access to the platform, it is time to say stop.
Those who have brought up is house father themselves. Dictator. Monopolist. And that's exactly what Opera Software is now trying to do.
Three days ago they sent their browser into the approval of Apple.
In order to put pressure on Apple, and ensures that the application does not fall in the same black hole as others before them (Google Voice), they have now started a campaign. On the web now accounts for the amount of time that has elapsed since the browser was submitted.
Many thousands of people have spread the message of this page further. Do that you also.
iPhone's Safari browser need this competition. At launch nearly three years ago, this was a good browser. Since that it is not updated significantly.
Opera Mini offers several highly anticipated features, such as tabbed browsing and speed dialing. It is also far faster and will make it more appealing to surf over slow mobile network. If chewing data on their servers before they are transferred to the mobile phone provides site to cut costs for the user.
If Apple refuses to distribute Opera Mini they will be caught in the trap. When it becomes clear once and for all that they are afraid of competition. At the same time Opera win sympathy for such a decision. They win either way.
In competition with great forward-sleeved options, open options as Android, Apple has everything to lose by not saying yes to the site. It is not the platform, but the provision of programs that are most important to users.
Opera has already succeeded in dragging the Microsoft of European competition law. The same should they do if they get rejected by Apple.
