This is why we iPhone users must encourage everyone to buy a Google Android gPhone ...
Opera Sings an Ode to Browsers Everywhere - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
... For smartphones, Opera Mobile is a full-featured browser that can display most Web sites. Handset makers pay Opera about 50 cents to $1 per copy for each phone made with the browser on it.
For less sophisticated phones and slower networks, it offers Opera Mini, which takes advantage of a server computer, run by Opera, to handle the processing of Web pages. The server then sends a simplified version of each page to the phone in a compressed form.
Because that makes for much faster browsing no matter what the phone and network, Mr. von Tetzchner said, Opera Mini is increasingly popular on smartphones, even those that use the latest third-generation, or 3G, wireless data networks.
“3G isn’t really that fast,” he said. “We try to deal with the real world.”
Mr. von Tetzchner said that Opera’s engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won’t let the company release it because it competes with Apple’s own Safari browser...
Wouldn't you like to have the choice of a Opera Mobile? Google Android customers will have that choice.
Apple needs the lash of competition to be a barely tolerable companion.
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