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Apple blocked third-party softwares for its iPhone. “Who can replace core applications of the iPhone”  says  CEO of Mozilla Corporation, now appears confirmed by co-founder and chief of the Norwegian browser smithy Opera. The company had a version of its popular mobile browser Opera Mini developed for the iPhone, but Apple prevents the publication, quoted the New York Times. Reason was the competition to own Safari browser.

But on slow mobile connections Opera Mini has advantages over the Safari browser of the iPhone. But with slow portable radio connections Opera Mini has some advantages compared to the Safari browser of the iPhones. Because the Internet sites are prepared, adapted and compressed by Opera own servers, before they arrive at mobile phone. This solution saves a quantity of data, the side structure also goes very fast during a slow Internet connection very fast.

The chairman of the Mozilla Corporation has already declared there will be no Firefox browser for the iPhone at the end of July 2008. "Apple makes development difficult," he said to a magazine. Apple's argument that technical reasons speak against a release of Firefox in the App Store with iTunes and the user would be confused different menu structures. According to his opinion they merely mask business interests.