On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 14:07:37 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 3/31/2018 11:58 AM, Etienne Robillard wrote: > >> Do you really think people in Somalia can afford theses things like in >> the US? > > No, many cannot afford $600 Caddilac-style phones to take 10 megapixel > pictures and watch UTube videos. Instead they buy $100 VWBug-style > phones that let them get competitive prices for their crops and other > goods instead of accepting low-ball bids from whoever wanders by their > village. > > Africans are ahead of at least the US in using phone minutes as a benign > practical digital currency. This, not destructive and useless bitcoins, > are the real revolution.
What Terry said. Personally, I dislike smartphones, but I have to say that they way they are used in villages across India, Africa and other developing places has been far more of a benign revolution than what smartphones are doing to the West. None of this has anything to do with Python though. Python is not primarily a device for development on mobile devices, it is not dropping support for laptops, desktops and servers, and Etienne's questions are based on utterly false premises. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
