Apple Chooses Safari Over Opera In The Browser War

As Apple continues to step up its development efforts on the Safari browser, third party Brower Opera is in doubt for the Mac platform. Opera released version 7 of its browser for the Windows OS, but did not indicate that an Apple release would follow. The company has expressed doubts that it will continue to produce a browser for the Apple OS. This problem echoes what many other third party Apple developers continue to echo as Apple continues to ramp up its own software development efforts.

Many of the comments of Opera seem very similar to those of Music Match which made a similar case when pulling the plug on support for Apple when they announced iTunes. At a time when Apple can not afford to push third party developers away, they seem to continue to flee the Apple platform. Apple is going to have a difficult time explaining to customers why they are driving away third party developers only to replace these applications with Apple developed applications. We question the wisdom of the company both developing the hardware as well many of the major applications that users depend on.