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Opera: Phantom of the Turnaround – 70% Downside
- codpiece 6y agoThat such a cool FOSS project would turn to predatory lending is fascinating.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y agoHoly crap...all from a browser based company.
- hakfoo 6y agoIt feels like they should have put more background in the original sin that put Opera on this road. When they used the Presto engine, that gave them a product they could sell- a unique engine they could license for embedded markets, for example. Remember the Wii ran an Opera derivative. They decided to roll out a Blink-based version (v12->15 transition) and that shot them in the foot in every possible way: * They no longer had a product they could commercialize for licensing revenue. Why buy Blink from them instead of doing your own Chromium fork for free? * The Blink version was so feature-poor for years that the power users that loved Opera 12 eventually moved to products like Vivaldi, which felt like it was trying to capture the same spirit. I suspect many of them abandoned Opera's portal services which could have been a revenue stream. Ironically, I suspect the value of a (maintained) Presto engine would only have risen, especially after Chromium!Edge arrived and furthered the fear of a browser monoculture.
- reiichiroh 6y agoDoes Opera still own Fastmail?
- nmjenkins 6y agoNot since 2013: https://fastmail.blog/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-staff-purchase-the-business-from-opera/ https://fastmail.blog/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-staf...