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Interesting. Opera makes most of their revenue through licensing their rendering engine. That's how they've turned their ~2% marketshare into $180MM in revenue
by gkoberger 14y ago
Interesting. Opera makes most of their revenue through licensing their rendering engine. That's how they've turned their ~2% marketshare into $180MM in revenue (compared to, say, Mozilla's ~26% and $300MM).
I wonder how this will affect that.
[EDIT: I mixed up currencies; fixed it.]
- jsnell 14y agoI find those numbers hard to believe. Are you sure your currency conversions are correct?
- masklinn 14y agoLikely, Opera Software had a revenue of NOK 900M in 2011, and USD 1 ~ NOK 5 yielding a ~USD 180M revenue. So his comment is only correct if you compare without conversion (Opera Software is indeed a billion a year in revenue, but that's a billion NOK)
- andreastt 14y agoA lot of the work that goes into adapting a browser for various chipsets and devices (TVs, STBs, etc.) is highly configuration dependent: Almost no device is the same. There is still a market for customizing and making device specific browsers even after Presto.