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First impressions:

1. It renders pages in exactly the same way it does on my Blackberry.

2. The UI is just as awkward.

Amazing.

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Friend of mine:

"Opera Mini's flagrant disregard for UI conventions would get any other app rejected."

Pretty much sums up my thoughts. It's bad on so many levels and somehow received special treatment.

Maybe it's fine to duplicate existing functionality on the iPhone if you do it so badly that there's no danger of anyone actually using it.

That's the overruling statement right there for most of this App store shenanigans.., if something sucks people won't use it, and it won't be a threat.

So, wait: you think it should have been rejected for not following UI conventions?

My first thought is that plenty of games have UIs built from scratch. I think the conventions are just that: conventions.

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