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> Want to know where the best location to get water is? Want to know which farms in the area are hiring? Want to see the local mayor's latest scandalous photo?
by jhasse 10y ago
> Want to know where the best location to get water is? Want to know which farms in the area are hiring? Want to see the local mayor's latest scandalous photo? These all can be coded in a weekend at the local internet cafe.
These could also just be implemented as web ... sites.
- diafygi 10y agoBut, how do people in your village visit that website? Few have full-featured browsers. Also, making a zip file that people can pass around and install locally means you don't need to host it anywhere or have internet access to use it. Firefox OS was perfect for developers who had more time than money.
- jhasse 10y agoEhm ... Firefox OS has a full featured browser. And nearly every platform where web apps would work. Or do you mean few have internet access?
- diafygi 10y agoFew have cheap internet access (just texts, calls, and small amounts of data), so you shouldn't assume your audience has easy access to it in local villages. > And nearly every platform where web apps would work. What platforms? Android is too expensive. Feature/flip phones don't run web apps. So, yes, my point was that FirefoxOS was the only platform that had the potential to offer widespread web app access to this audience. Also, since FirefoxOS web apps could be zip files, they didn't necessarily have to have internet access to run and could be passed around via sneakernet.