Time since Opera Mini for iPhone was officially submitted to Apple

<i>Opera Mini requests web pages through the Opera Software company's servers, which process and compress them before relaying the pages back to the mobile phone. This compression process makes transfer time about two to three times faster, and the pre-processing smoothes compatibility with web pages not designed for mobile phones.</i><p>How is this not a massive privacy/security issue? You are trusting Opera to not look at your content, and as mentioned later on: <i>Opera Mini has received some criticism because it does not offer true, end-to-end security when visiting encrypted sites such as paypal.com.[49] When visiting an encrypted web page, the Opera Software company's servers decrypt the page, then re-encrypt it themselves, breaking end-to-end security</i>

What a weird platform the iPhone is, when established companies like Opera have to resort to such things.

Great move by opera. - (Try to) Force apple to act quickly (When do you think Opera Mini will be approved by Apple?). - Create something viral to promote it (669 tweets at the moment). - Involve customers, convert new users through voting (Upcoming guesses)<p>Costs an iPhone and some developer time. Brilliant.

Well, call me a pessimist but they should ask people to estimate when it would be <i>rejected</i>.<p>Apple will use the standard response that it replicates functionality already present in the iPhone, i.e. Safari, and could/would confuse users.<p>I'd be extremely happy if I'm provided wrong.<p>A request to Apple fanboys: Kindly reply with <i>why</i> before you downvote me.

This is a very clever move, and I think Apple will either approve or reject the app asap.<p>If they reject it I guess it will be under 'security' concerns, and not duplication of iphone functionality, followed by two months of blog posts and tweets about how Apple is evil and how Opera Mini is insecure and a CPU-hog in the other hand

<i>When do you think Opera Mini will be approved by Apple?</i><p>Never, and it's a pity. Opera looks really impressive, judging by their video.

I don't get this. Why submit an iPhone app that is (apparently) without iPad functionality, during the time window when Apple has started accepting "universal" iPhone/iPad apps? Why not get it right, do it as a universal app, and then submit it?<p>Maybe it's because they hope to avoid the duplication of functionality trap. On iPhone, at least on the current OS for iPhones, you don't get multiple content panels on the same screen except as part of a horizontal scroll. On iPad, I believe you do, so in that case there would be duplication.

It would tick some iPhone developers off if these guys got faster service because of a stunt.

Do I smell the start of an anti-trust suit brewing???<p>Assuming there's no slight of hands trickery in the demo, the performance is very impressive. I was under the assumption that the bulk of the performance issues on Safari were network and cpu related...

It duplicates functionality the iPhone already has, does that mean they'll reject it to be consistent or will they approve a bunch of other apps that have been rejected for that reason ?

Hmm, you can guess when the app will be approved. I'd like to see some stats on those guesses, i bet that the results will make clear that the average user has no idea of how long the approval process is (i expect that the majority of votes should fall in the 1-3 weeks range).

What happens if Apple approves Opera Mini within 24 to 36 hours and then uses Opera Mini as an example to direct attention away from the app store's flaws?

Is there a way to bypass Opera servers in Opera mini (in settings) even if it makes your web browsing experience a bit slower?

soon in an european counrty near you: the iphone browser ballot!<p>And in other news: opera should leave the iphone and fix the zillion bugs on the other platforms that lacks a decent native browser.<p>Posted from a nokia with Opera mini.

I wish one day without news about Apple.