Although remains completely unknown to the vast majorityOpera is more than a remarkable web browser with a very careful design, the forerunner of some features that we later saw made it to other applications in its category, and also one of the fastest when it comes to reacting to the movements of the technological sector. Unfortunately, the limited communication policy as well as some mistakes from the past hinder its growth in such a competitive market as the browser market.

The company is also at a very interesting moment, with the adoption of a new paradigm called Opera One, as well as with integration of artificial intelligence-based functions. It is not for nothing that we must remember that he was the first of his rivals to react to the announcement of the new Bing and the integration of AI in Microsoft Edge, in another movement in which they have demonstrated that they play in the golden league with their receptivity and interest in innovation.

In the latest movement along these lines Opera has announced that it is working on a web browser for iOS that will integrate more AI-based features, as we can read in TechCrunch. And of course, given the dates, it looks like it’s actually something they’ve been working on for a while, as they state that their intention is to make it available to users in the European Union as early as March.

You must have thought about it and you are actually right. The March elections are not accidental, as they are limited to the European Water Framework Directive and as a result, to the changes that Apple recently announced and that we have listed here. And this browser, this new iOS-specific variant of Opera, could be the first to reach iPhones with an engine other than WebKit, which is mandatory in Apple’s operating system until the near arrival of iOS 17.4. All this, of course, exclusively in the European Union, as Apple has already confirmed that it does not plan to extend these changes to other geographical areas.

So, We are facing the first movement in this sense, but it won’t be long before we see other browsers move to other engines as well (mainly Chromium, and we’re also waiting for Gecko to come with Firefox, which should be another very interesting move). Although along the way we’ll also have to be bombarded with operating system warning messages trying to dissuade us from using technologies as dangerous as… well, any other than those adopted by Apple.