Apple Blocks Opera Browser from iPhone AppStore

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 by Aaron Besson
Category: 3G iPhone, AppStore News & Reviews, Apple News, What's New, iPhone, iPod Touch News.

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Opera Mini Browser has taken a back seat due to Apples tight grip on apps that are approved for download/purchase from the AppStore. Read below for more

Opera chief Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner recently told the New York Times (by way of MacNN) that Opera Mini, one of the company’s mobile web browsers for smartphones, has already been ported to the iPhone but can’t be released as Apple’s rules for the App Store preclude software that replicate the core functionality of the iPhone or iPod touch.

The revelation is an unusual one given Apple’s official stance on third-party apps as early as March, when the iPhone Software Developer Kit was first released. The Cupertino, Calif.-based cellphone maker specifically bars third-party interpreters that call on non-Apple frameworks and languages, which by definition would include Opera’s web rendering engine. This would have left Opera Software converting software unlikely to be released in the near term.

[via AppleInsider]