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Everyone wants to get onto the Iphone
IT SEEMS THAT the world plus dog is desperate to get onto Apple's Iphone and Ipod Touch gadgets.
Opera said that it is planning to reveal Opera Mini for the Iphone at a press and partner preview during the upcoming 2010 Mobile World Congress (MWC).
Opera Mini uses compression technology to speed up webpage loading and reduces data surcharges. Jon von Tetzchner, cofounder of Opera Software, said that Opera Mini for Iphone is not publicly available yet and it will be just showing it off to hacks at the show. It is not clear if Jobs' Mob has even given its approval for Opera Mini to run on the Jesus phone yet.
Meanwhile RealVNC has launched its VNC Viewer for the Iphone and Ipod Touch. It allows users to access and control a computer from their Iphone or Ipod Touch.
Available to download from the App Store, RealVNC's VNC Viewer makes it possible for users to run applications, access documents and change settings on any Mac OS X, Windows, Linux or UNIX computer, just as though they are sitting in front of it.
It allows Apple users to stick two fingers up at Steve Jobs for his personal vendetta against Adobe at their expense. It means they can use the same Flash software that is found on most of the world's websites, just like normal people. They can also copy and paste text between applications on their mobile device and computer.
The VNC Viewer application is also designed to allow system administrators to troubleshoot and manage remote desktops or servers, check logs, install and uninstall software and test applications, wherever they might be. µ
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... let the fools develop the Opera for iPhone, just like Google Voice, and then when the curtail is to be raised they say NOPE! It's replicating the features of iPhoneTouchWhatEver, sorry guys and gals of Opera.
Why? This might be the devious plan by Apple, just to waste developer hours of their competitors on something that never sees the light of day.
On more serious note I wish there were some laws against kind of software market monopoly Apple is managing... Even though it's their hardware, but people have bought it -- not rented it -- to my knowledge.
There is already a third party browser on the app store, Mercury, it is reasonable as far as mobile browsers go, but it shows that Apple have loosened the restrictions as far as browsers go.
In answer to your question, no. The refresh rate is incredibly slow (between Windows Mobile and Windows XP with the latest VNC, at least). To suggest that it is an alternative to having Flash on the device is somewhat ridiculous.
Also, there is no way Apple will allow a third party browser to be installed. How will Jobs take over the world if he allows his competitors any edge?? Surely he will crush them in his god-like hands for their insolence??
Apparently.
We hear and assume that Apple is extraordinarily unlikely to have any truck with RealNetworks. That was the position when, I think I recall, RealNetworks found a way to handle files from iTunes and Apple promptly updated iTunes to prevent that, and it's the position now, I think.
But to most computer users, Real means RealNetworks RealPlayer, not RealVNC.
It's been a while since I used VNC, I generally use Remote Desktop as I found it to be faster. Have speeds improved enough to be able to view Flash over VNC?
Last time I tried this the speeds were terrible (and this was over a LAN). I would be pleasantly surprised if it's improved enough to be usable, I would definitely consider switching to it, as the iPhone's RDP client is very slow.