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A web browser is probably one of the more complicated apps you could write, though. If Apple insists on thoroughly examining what an app is doing, this ought t

A web browser is probably one of the more complicated apps you could write, though. If Apple insists on thoroughly examining what an app is doing, this ought to take awhile.

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ryanhuff 17y ago
Unfortunately for Opera, some of what their "browser" does is within their own servers. So, Apple can never have complete visibility into what the application (service) does.
- wvenable 17y ago
  Aren't a huge number of apps just like that. What does a twitter app do except communicate with a server outside their control? Even the Google maps application is just a viewer for some server-side data.
  - ryanhuff 17y ago
    The difference is that a huge portion of the smarts that goes into rendering the page happens off-device. Opera isn't a typical web browser. My understanding is that its more like webex or something that pushes most of the work to a server.
    - wvenable 17y ago
      That's absolutely true, I just wonder where Apple would draw the line. How much server-side processing is too much?
      - elai 17y ago
        There are plenty of apps that are just a bunch of web views on tabs. Thats pretty much %100 server side processing ;)
mbreese 17y ago
And if what Opera submitted was a web browser the review might be done by now... as it is, Opera submitted a proxy viewer which displays a rendering of a webpage as processed by Opera's servers. Good luck examining that... it's a security nightmare.