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by hakfoo 1250 days ago
Their big business idea was embedding and customization; the Wii's browser was an Opera derivative, for example.

I suspect they were an inadvertent victim of the smartphone/cheap data revolution. Products like Opera Mini (was that the one that did a lot of the lifting server side) were rapidly obsolesced when we moved from spotty data and Blackberry scroll-wheels to touchscreens and 3G/4G