On 12 December 2012 00:22, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
OTOH, see recent coverage of Wikipedia in Africa, where it's basically going to be on phones. Cheap shitty smartphones. That the kids are *desperate* to get Wikipedia on. Do we want to make those readers into editors? It'd be nice.
Have a link? 'Cheap smartphone' seems a contradiction.
$50 Huawei phones running an ancient Android and only getting cheaper. Jimbo's all about them. http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/50-android-smartphones-are-disrupting-afric...
I think there is a field for mobiles and one for desktop. You could do one tasks from the other? Probably, but not as well as if you used the right tool*.
You're assuming from the position of someone who can assume a general-purpose computer with a good Internet connection.
- d.