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Safari to Kill Opera?
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
January 28th 2003
The fat lady may be close to singing.
Opera Software's development team have expressed doubt over whether they will continue
to develop a browser for OS X, a ZDNet story says.
Opera has released version 7.0 of its Windows browser, but has yet to name a date for
the release of a Macintosh version. Apple's recent Safari release is seen as the key
factor behind Opera's reluctance to commit any future development time an OS X browser.
"I'm not a quitter, and our company isn't a quitter, but it really is up to Apple,"
said Jon von Tetzchner, chief executive of Opera. "The Mac platform may not be viable
for us any longer. We have contacted Apple and asked them if they want a third-party
browser, and we'll see what the answer is, They could say we want to use Opera as the
core engine. If they want KHTML as a simple little browser, and also something more
advanced, we would be happy to provide it. Obviously, if we don't get any positive
signs from Apple, then we have to think about it."
Mac users waited seemingly forever for Opera to first appear on the Mac platform, and
the developer originally committed to build OS X, PowerPC and 68K versions.
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