Why do people change titles? If you read the article, you'd realise that he's explaining why they weren't rejected, it was the work of dodgy journalism further hyped by the blogosphere.
Changing titles is generally frowned upon, but in this case the original title is targeted at people who already know some background on the Opera/iPhone story. I don't think the change is inaccurate; he does explain why the application was rejected (breaking rule 3.3.2).
Did we both read the same story? The story I read says they haven't even submitted a browser, much less had one rejected. The original headline is perfectly fine even if you haven't read any speculative discussion about or paraphrasing of paraphrasing of quotes.
This is kind of an interesting side effect of a closed software market. Plugins don't really exist, because its difficult to control the distribution of programs that run programs. (And its turtles allll the way down.)
