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Re:Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe. by duaneb on Friday May 25, 2012 @08:21PM (#4025946)
> many of the users only access the Internet via their mobile devices

Do you have a source for that? I'm finding it a little hard to believe, especially since getting a cheap computer + internet for two years is (much) less expensive than a phone + wireless. Granted, I'm in the US, which is probably very different from the demographics in Opera Mini's user base.

Re:Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe. by ks on Sunday May 27, 2012 @01:07PM (#4030476)
> Do you have a source for that?

The article I linked says the following:

"The study, which was conducted between November 2010 and November 2011, found that globally, 56% of Opera users and 43% of those who use another browser only access the Internet via their mobile devices. In some countries, including Egypt (72%), Bangladesh (69%), Brazil (65%) and South Africa (61%), these numbers for Opera users are significantly higher."

> Granted, I'm in the US, which is probably very different from the demographics in Opera Mini's user base.

I can only speculate to why they prefer using a mobile, but I think that the infrastructure is so different from our countries that we shouldn't necessarily base our assumptions on what we would have done.