On 12 December 2012 00:22, Platonides <Platonides(a)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-afriā¦
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.