Comments on: YouTube Gains Ground Along With Opera Mini http://gigaom.com/2009/08/25/youtube-gains-ground-along-with-opera-mini/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:33:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Opera Mini, Unite and the Future of Mobile Browsers http://gigaom.com/2009/08/25/youtube-gains-ground-along-with-opera-mini/#comment-222269 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:01:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=65889#comment-222269 [...] Gibbs: Opera Mini has gained astounding traction worldwide, surpassing 25 million downloads via GetJar alone, but it seems most of that uptake is coming from markets outside North America. [...]

]]> By: Archis http://gigaom.com/2009/08/25/youtube-gains-ground-along-with-opera-mini/#comment-222268 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:20:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=65889#comment-222268 One key reason why Opera might be gaining market share on mobile browser market is that the handset’s default browsers suck big time. Of course that doesn’t include iPhone. Try using the default browser of a Nokia handset and you will realize how many clicks it actually takes just to reach a navigation bar. Atleast that was the case in Nokia N73. Plus browsing on Opera mini is much faster too.

]]> By: Colin Gibbs http://gigaom.com/2009/08/25/youtube-gains-ground-along-with-opera-mini/#comment-222267 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:28:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=65889#comment-222267 Agreed, Jason, which is another reason why I think the YouTube traffic is so interesting. If that many people are consuming Web-based mobile video on dated hardware, it’s easy to imagine viewership could skyrocket on more advanced handsets.

]]> By: Jason Lackey http://gigaom.com/2009/08/25/youtube-gains-ground-along-with-opera-mini/#comment-222266 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:35:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=65889#comment-222266 Opera Mini is particularly impressive on old/slow hardware where it extracts near miracles. For example, Opera Mini on my V3m Razr is actually fairly usable, in contrast the to stock browser which is awful.

The funny thing is that I think that I like Opera Mini better than Opera Mobile.

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