Opera Max is expected to be installed on 100 million devices by 2017

For those us who have limits on the amount of data we’re allowed to use, or who don’t have fast connections, watching videos on Netflix and YouTube can be a struggle. Either we hit our data caps too quickly, or videos take forever to load, both of which are definitely first-world problems, but immensely annoying nonetheless. That’s why Opera Max has started to become so popular, with companies like Samsung and Xiaomi bundling the app with some of their devices. Basically, the app uses data compression to reduce the data these videos consume by around 60%, with all other types of content having their data consumption reduced by 50%. Obviously this could be extremely useful to a lot of people out there, which is why Opera thinks the app will be installed on 100 million smartphones by 2017.