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By 2020 80% of humanity will have access to a smartphone connected to the internet. As a programmer I am really optimistic about the future :)
by 1971genocide 11y ago
By 2020 80% of humanity will have access to a smartphone connected to the internet.
As a programmer I am really optimistic about the future :)
- pmalynin 11y agoAnd as an advertiser even more so
- asavadatti 11y agoA Pessimist, an Optimist and an Ad-man are standing around a new born infant. The Optimist says "Two more hands to work". The Pessimist says "One more mouth to feed". The Ad-guy says "Eyeballs"
- dublinben 11y agoThey certainly won't be threatening your job any time soon. We won't be educating a new generation of programmers when 80% of users' primary computing device is a phone.
- oh_sigh 11y agoWhy not? You can get a computer which runs linux, and lets you learn how to program, for far cheaper than the average cell phone costs. For example raspberry pi runs linux and you can buy it for $30. Right now the thing that is stopping more people from learning programming is probably the unfriendliness that is associated with setting up your environment for the first time and learning everything from scratch.
- dublinben 11y agoThe $30 price of a RaspberryPi is pretty disingenuous. You also need over $100 of accessories to actually use it as a desktop computer.