Apple Decides There Will Be No Opera For The iPhone
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Just recently, Opera (a very nice full featured web browser) created an iPhone application (Opera Mini). Apple rejected it because it competed with Safari. My question is so what? You can’t delete Safari from the iPhone (without some serious hacking), so why not allow other browsers? You allow it on your OS, so their isn’t much of a difference in your scaled down version of the iPhone.
This isn’t a new thing for Apple, they’ve been shutting down apps that ‘compete’ with their apps for months now (mail apps, browsers, etc). Their reasoning behind not allowing these apps were that they competed or were too similar to apps that they provided. Are they too afraid that they make inferior apps to non-Apple developers? I can’t imagine that they would be threatened by a few college kids making a competing app (this is a really bad generalization but you get my point), so my only other reasoning behind this is for view of Apple. If a small developer can make a better app than Apple, it looks bad for Apple, so they avoid this embarassment by controlling who makes the apps.
Either way, they need to stop restricting apps that aren’t harmful to the device to keep developers on their toes in creating better apps every time.
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