Opera Software plans on releasing Opera Mini for the iPhone as an App Store application, according to the company’s co-founder, who publicly states that he anticipates no problems with Apple allowing the move. Opera has been disseminating Opera Mini to as many smartphone platforms as possible, including Google Android and Windows Mobile, as it attempts to preserve and maybe grow its market share in the mobile-browser arena. While the version of Opera Mini for the iPhone will include the same features as Opera Mini for other smartphones, it is also designed to sidestep the iPhone’s lack of multitasking. Opera has not publicly announced a release date for Opera Mini for the iPhone.
– Opera Software expects that Apple will allow Opera Mini onto the iPhone,
co-founder Jon von Tetzschner told eWEEK in a March 19 interview, and plans to
release the browser through the App Store at an unannounced point in the near
future.
quot;Our expectation is that Apple will allow it…