I'm hoping Apple will deny it simply because I'm excited to see the huge quantity of whine that it will result in -flooding the tubes for weeks with it's open letters, Op Ed pieces and my favourite of all, the endless indignant blog posts. Way better than a soap.
They have a count-up timer of how long it's taking to be approved: <a href="http://my.opera.com/community/countup/" rel="nofollow">http://my.opera.com/community/countup/</a><p>It's not clear what statement they're trying to make with this but it's not pretty.
Doing all the rendering on the server side is certainly an interesting approach - however, I wonder if the speed comparison will be as favourable once that server is doing the rendering for millions of users!