How are they making money from this?
They need to run fast servers that cater to each and every phone that has their app installed anywhere in the world.. won't that be pretty expensive?
>> "Although the Opera browser will be a free app for download, the company’s revenue will increase thanks to advertising and search engines built into the web browser."
1) brand awareness (people will actually start to know Opera web browsing solutions/Opera Software, which is a small brand/browser compared to Firefox or Chrome, don't even mention IE)
2) they make money driving traffic to the default websites on Opera Mini's speed dial homepage
I suspect the brand awareness and popularity numbers (50 million users or whatever) are helpful when it comes to negotiations with manufacturers or carriers who might want to bundle the browser with phones out of the box. I expect Opera gets paid decently for that.
from http://www.techjackal.net/internet/2010/04/14/opera-browser-...