I’ll be the first to say that I am not someone who considers himself to be a typical Opera user. Sure, it’s a fine browser, however, I can’t help but feel like it still has some catching up to do in order to become a real player on the desktop. In the mobile world, however, it looks like it is really making a name for itself.

You know what? This is fantastic. Opera certainly has a lot to offer with its innovations and now that it has begun to hammer out an identity for itself, we are beginning to really see evidence to that point. The one area that has me concerned, however, is that it might be expanding too quickly. I mean, it still has a lot of work to do with the desktop front and I would hate to see it lose itself with too many projects at once.

In the end, I believe that its best approach would be to pick a market and hit it with everything that it has. The desktop market is primarily going to remain with both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Opera is not offering anything compelling enough to get most people to switch browsers. On the mobile platform however, I think that its future here is wide open.