How about Apple buy Opera?

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Following on from my thread about Apple buying Adobe, how about this time if Apple bought Opera?

I mean I like Safari but it's not as good as it could be, Google Chrome is very fast, Firefox has a long history (fans, plugins etc and fast) but what about Opera?

I've used it briefly over several versions, its nice and popular (to a degree). It's even on over 100 million mobile phones so it has a good revenue stream.

But what I ultimately mean is, merging Safari with the Norwegians' Opera, who seem to be doing a fine job as it is and make Safari a lot better and perhaps give it a much needed boost in the browser ratings war. Opera in itself is a fast browser, not sure how it compares in memory usage, but a lot of people out there like what they're doing!

/Discuss....
 
It would be without precedence. They are two shoes from the same pair. Both Safari and Opera suffer from the same issues, lack the same features and both focus too much on marginal stuff, without understanding what does NOT make them successful.
 
Don't think it makes any sense as an investment to be honest.

Adobe makes sense because of the quality and respect for their creative apps. I have no doubts that Apple have their own version of Photoshop in the labs anyway.
 
Webkit is considered the best rendering engine at the moment, which Chrome also uses, so I don't see any benefits to Apple at all.

Opera might have a large user base with Opera Mini, but Webkit is used on most touchscreen devices, which is what is important to Apple and the future of the internet.
 
Madness! If they want to add features to (Mobile)Safari, they'll do it. They don't need anything Opera has.
 
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Slogan said:
Adobe makes sense because of the quality and respect for their creative apps. I have no doubts that Apple have their own version of Photoshop in the labs anyway.
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It makes sense in the same way buying eMagic made sense - convert loyal software base to mac hardware and make the money off that and use said software team to develop new products.

The problem I would have with them buying Adobe is it that they'd do the same thing. Don't get me wrong here as for Photoshop/Illustrator (and Quark) I would rather be on a Mac - for me the workflow and OS integration (shortcuts etc) is just better and tighter on the Mac. But for Adobe to become Mac only, that wouldn't be good.

cheers
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Slogan said:
I have no doubts that Apple have their own version of Photoshop in the labs anyway.
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Sounds a little to much like starting a war on multiple fronts to me. They're keeping up with Lightroom (And really only just - The aperture userbase fell off a cliff with LR2 and Aperture remained stagnant for far too long) because Lightroom is a very young project in itself. Photoshop is an industry powerhouse, there is literally nothing that comes even remotely close, nor anything you would possibly think of running as an alternative. The fact the word is used as much a verb as a noun nowadays is testament to this. I would be very surprised if Apple released a product to compete with Photoshop, and even more surprised if they manage to catch up in functionality even in the first god knows how many versions. Afterwhich you still have to convince the one singular userbase to leave what they've grown with and try something new = very doubtfull.

I think a lot of Apple users just have to accept that Apple as a company no longer have the professional media market primarily in their sites anymore. They've realised they can make a shedload more money from MP3 players and iPhones!
 
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That's like saying: "Why don't Apple buy the World Wide Web?"
Damned stupid idea. In my remark everyone owns the web The problem with apple is that when they get one profittable idea everyone follows suit and says why don't you become God or bill Gates. Apple should keep things original and not buy out other companies and become another Microsoft which will bring itself into the antitrust market. With all the ecconomic downturn recently and banking especially, the last thing we need is another Enron type enterprise with a Microsoft spirit.
 
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