Opera doesn’t have just .1 percent market share. Its small, but not that small. I don’t know how you got that .1% figure.

Plus, Opera agreeing to Apple would have been akin to making a deal with the devil as apple would have liked Opera not to distribute the browser to other phones. And tying yourself to just one phone is never a good idea.

I think Opera is helping much more people by being on a variety of phones. Plus acording to their mobile reports, Opera Mini is the worlds most popular mobile browser, so I guess its working out fine for opera as well.

I totally agree with you. It seems a little hard for me to believe that apple was looking to put opera on the iPhone. That wouldn’t really fit in the whole apple ecosystem breakdown now would it.

Next Apple had Safari running on the Mac for years and even Windows before the iPhone was a product. Do you really believe that Apple would release the iPhone without their own browser on it? Especially being that is was pushed as a huge selling point of the iPhone. I don’t.

Reading Valleywag is like reading the tech version of the Globe or the Star that you find in your local supermarket, catchy headlines with little truth or facts.

Opera has less than .1 of the browser market and would have been in no position to turn anyone down. What is also funny is that several other mobile phones are looking at webkit to use as their mobile browser, even ones running on Windows Mobile.