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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 (66
by gokhan 17y ago
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)
Costs an iPhone and some developer time. Brilliant.
- alain94040 17y ago669 tweets Not to rain on your parade, but do you think Steve Jobs is scared by 669 tweets? He has taken much more heat (think FCC letters about monopoly behavior) and still didn't move.
- there 17y ago669 tweets are 669 mentions of opera and have nothing to do with steve jobs. this is marketing, not trying to scare steve jobs or apple into anything.
- gizmo 17y ago"some developer time"? That may be the understatement of the year. Opera has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of developer time in the app, and they want it to be used. The PR circus is a nice benefit, not the goal. It doesn't come close to compensating for the financial investment and opportunity-cost of developing Opera for iPhone.
- mortenjorck 17y agoI think the GP was referring to the countdown timer, not the entire Opera Mini for iPhone project.
- necrecious 17y agoThis is totally a marketing move. There is no doubt it will be approved. My company's approved iPhone app is not only a Firefox browser but also has Flash and Java support.
- blasdel 17y agoThat's not a browser, just VNC to an Xvnc session with a minimal window manager and a maximized Firefox. Also kind of unusual to advertise that your app is approved, before launching the service or releasing the app for sale.
- necrecious 17y agoNope, wrong guess. And Opera Mini is not a browser, it is just an HTML renderer to a compressed proxy.
- lazugod 17y agoSo when does someone take the logical step and make an "App Countdown" app?