Comments on: Opera CEO Jon von Tetzcher discusses the grand scheme for Opera Widgets: the mobile

By: mazda

mazda — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:47:37 +0000

Hmm… I can’t find googlebar for Opera… Where I can get it? I think Opera is best!

By: Gabo

Gabo — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:46:52 +0000

It would be great to see more widgets oriented to sysadmin’s work too.

By: Joseph Mostarda

Joseph Mostarda — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:36:45 +0000

I agree that there aren’t very many useful widgets available at the moment. But hopefull this will change.

By: Org

Org — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:42:28 +0000

I think widgets on a phone would be incredible, especially for all of those little things you want to check in an instant. Widsets has attempted to do this so far but they don’t seem to work so well, or at all on my phone.

By: mrd

mrd — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 02:47:53 +0000

I’ve never understood why people have an issue with widgets or that they wondered why it’s there.

The Opera Platform and SDK in particular were there *months* before Opera 9 appeared and it was obvious from that point where widgets were coming from and why they were put into O9Desktop.

It makes sense. Widget development - as part of the OPlatform - is all about value add for mobile/embedded OEMs and users. That turns into ka-ching for Opera and useability for those users.

That it flows on to become widgets that you can ignore if you don’t like them (I’m not in that camp…) is irrelevant or a bonus depending on your viewpoint.

By: Darken

Darken — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:57:57 +0000

Excellent infos & articles, thanx for this!

By: gandalf

gandalf — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:57:59 +0000

Glad to know this!

I was probably one of the most confused folks around since Widgets seems to have no business/user experience goal on desktop.
On mobile it seems to be way more reasonable.

By: Sohil

Sohil — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:57:33 +0000

Someone predicted this when Opera Watch was still at Blogspot. I was convinced this was the reason and now we have confirmation.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:07:45 +0000

I said this back in May hoping someone from Opera would respond with the information in that interview.

By: Holger Dors

Holger Dors — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:20:09 +0000

I always thought that this was obvious? IMO, Opera more and more concentrates on the “gdaget market”: Opera Mini, Opera for Nintendo DS, Opera for Wii — all very successful, profitable projects.

By: chess

chess — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:55:02 +0000

Opera platform?? Seems like an attempt to rule the mobile area. Go opera!