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Originally Posted by syanni85
paying for the browser helps pay for their marketing and gives more incentive to the developers and development.... developers will put more time and effort the more they get paid... this could also make opera the best browser out if they keep making it better and better on a regular basis, unlike skyfire who takes forever and a day to give you a beta to test...
giving it for free may not be the smartest thing, but it is a possibility i suppose.
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True, but also remember Opera has other browsers they make (desktop, mini, and the one that comes with the Wii (among other's) their main source of income is deals with other companies (like HTC, Nintendo, etc, etc, and also the deal they have with Google. So even if they make this free they are still getting money.
But back in the day Opera used to charge for their desktop version, later on they decided to stop charging, and after that happened they actually started getting more money altogether then they were as a paid product.
So the bottom line, the more people that would use Opera Mobile, the more money they will get if it's free..... (opera has a deal with Google, which is why it's on the homepage, so for every search you do with Google using that Opera gets some money)..
not sure if that makes any sense, as I'm kinda rambling as it's late... but as I said before Opera now has some serious competition on their hands, and something they didn't have before.