Every one is running towards creating high end mobile apps, organising the unorganised. The ones who are not able to use the high end apps due to various reason, are not able to take advantages of this advancements. What are your views?
Ask HN: Is technology creating a great divide in working opportunity
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#2Who is not able to use these apps? I thought even the cheapest phones and computers of today were very powerful. And you can get a second hand few years old laptop from brand like Lenovo Thinkpad for $50.
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#3What app you have in mind? Most people use android phones and windows laptops. Designey apps appeal provide marginal productivity gains and are mostly sold as luxury items.
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#4It may be I’m ignorant, or not interpreting your intentions properly, but how does this argument not devolve into ‘But inequality is bad, and everything should be fair!?!?’ ?
You’re casually asking for an answer to a very complex problem and, to me at least, it betrays a lack of understanding of what you’re actually asking and the implications thereof.
Then again, maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about.
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#5If you're talking about 'apps' and 'technology' then you should blame Apple and the app developers, as they are uninterested in backwards compatibility.
In iOS, Apple wants devs to use the latest hardware features (AR, Face ID, Neural Engines) in their apps, meaning new features may raise the minimum supported version and also locks devs onto higher iOS versions (Building an entire app in SwiftUI for example) - meaning users must purchase a new device if it isn't supported. This happens on Android but it is not as enforced as it is on Apple devices.
So on mobile, yes it happens more with apps. But on the desktop users go for the web instead.
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#6If you're talking about 'apps' and 'technology' then you should blame Apple and the app developers, as they are uninterested in backwards compatibility. In iOS, Apple wants devs to use the latest hardware features (AR, Face ID, Neural Engines) in their apps, meaning new features may raise the minimum supported version and also locks devs onto higher iOS versions (Building an entire app in SwiftUI for example) - meani…
You're able to run a SwiftUI app on an iPhone 6s which is 5 years old at this point. Most people I speak to in the industry are supporting iOS12 at least. SwiftUI isn't widespread at all yet and most are using UIKit and likely will for a number of years. Also placing the blame entirely on app developers isn't especially fair since web developers don't seem that interested either, fire up an old tablet and see how well some modern SPAs run on it.
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#7Is it unclear to anyone else what the original post is asking? I have no idea what high end mobile apps are being referred to, what's being "organised", what this has to do with working opportunity.
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#8Who is not able to use these apps? I thought even the cheapest phones and computers of today were very powerful. And you can get a second hand few years old laptop from brand like Lenovo Thinkpad for $50.
are you talking about US? where everyone is able to buy and use mobile devices? I am talking about India.
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#9Who is not able to use these apps? I thought even the cheapest phones and computers of today were very powerful. And you can get a second hand few years old laptop from brand like Lenovo Thinkpad for $50.
are you talking about US? where everyone is able to buy and use mobile devices? I am talking about India.
Yes indeed, in India there are extremely cheap and powerful devices available to a huge lot of the population.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
are you talking about US? where everyone is able to buy and use mobile devices? I am talking about India.
Yes indeed, in India there are extremely cheap and powerful devices available to a huge lot of the population.
but they are not able to use is, due to lack of knowledge and understanding.