Over the past 24 hours, Apple has begun to allow mobile browsers in the Apple Store iPhone. Unexpectedly for everyone, several browsers appeared in the virtual store, and, interestingly, the submission of some of them dates back to October.
At the moment, Apple has not commented on their actions, most likely the browsers just stood in a special queue and waited for their appruva. We have already seen similar delays in other categories of the virtual store (recalling Pull My Finger and iFart Mobile).
Until today, Apple has motivated its veto on browsers with “functionality that repeats the original Safari”, I remind you that for this reason Opera hasn’t (
and isn’t ) in the Apple Store.
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So what do we have at the moment? Several browsers and their distinctive features:
- Edge Browser (Free) - Due to the absence of panels, while surfing, 100% of the phone screen is involved.
- Incognito ($ 1.99) - Stealth browser - does not record history.
- WebMate: Tabbed Browser ($ 0.99) - In this browser, we first click on the links that we want to see, and only then, when we are morally ready for this (for example, having read the article), we look at them.
I really hope that such actions by Apple will open the doors to high-quality browsers, and we will see mobile versions of Opera and Firefox, despite the fact that the iPhone SDK has a lot of restrictions.