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It was tragic when they they switched from the Presto engine. I was an Opera user from the exact day they stopped charging for it, but they slowly stopped innov
by Eisenstein 4y ago
It was tragic when they they switched from the Presto engine. I was an Opera user from the exact day they stopped charging for it, but they slowly stopped innovating in ways I found useful and when they ditched their engine I ditched them, reluctantly.
- ivlad 4y agoIt’s very hard to make money from, you know, a freeware browser without earning them somewhere else, i.e., in targeted advertising.
- Eisenstein 4y agoI agree, it was a terrible business plan. I loved the browser though.
- hakfoo 4y agoTheir big business idea was embedding and customization; the Wii's browser was an Opera derivative, for example. I suspect they were an inadvertent victim of the smartphone/cheap data revolution. Products like Opera Mini (was that the one that did a lot of the lifting server side) were rapidly obsolesced when we moved from spotty data and Blackberry scroll-wheels to touchscreens and 3G/4G