No, I don't own an Android phone, nor, as you've said before, do you, being a WinMob user. But I DO own the devices you continually criticize, the iPhone and the iPad.
Opera isn’t a ‘browser’...
Now, you've decided that the Opera browser reallly ISN'T a browser, evidently because it spoils your claim that Apple doesn't allow non-Webkit browsers on the iOS devices and since it obviously IS on there, it must NOT be a browser. Impeccable logic! Typical.
Sorry, you don't get to define what is or is not a browser merely because it "works different" and doesn't use WebKit. By that leap of illogic you can define away ANY non-Webkit browser on the iPhone you care to. It waddles, it has feathers, it quacks: it's a duck. You may want to claim it's an aardvark, but it's still a duck. How it accomplishes its duckness is irrelevant to the fact that it's a duck.
I do have a nice Android based tablet, which IS relevant to this article. And I am doing a current project for an iPad accessory, so I do have one of them here with me, right now (and have had one for the last 3 weeks).
Now, you've decided that the Opera browser reallly ISN'T a browser, evidently because it spoils your claim that Apple doesn't allow non-Webkit browsers on the iOS devices and since it obviously IS on there, it must NOT be a browser. Impeccable logic! Typical.
BS. If you're going to lie and attack me, at least get creative.
Opera DOES NOT RENDER the HTML on the phone, does it? You can learn what a browser's function is and see that Opera for the iPhone really doesn't meet the classical definition. But since that completely validates my claim, and shows yours to be false, well, that simply cannot be tolerated!
Face it, Sword - Apple does NOT let you replace the browser. This would be akin to Microsoft "allowing" you to run alternate browsers, as long as they used the Trident engine built in to the OS.
Sorry, you don't get to define what is or is not a browser merely because it "works different" and doesn't use WebKit
Neither do you. What does define a browser? Most would consider an application that simply presents pre-fetched static images of a website NOT a browser. It's more of an image viewer with variable sources for the images.
So how about it? What other HTML rendering engine can you install on an iPhone?