Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
I think the point is well made, that we need to be attentive to the hard realities our research sometimes unveils. Should institutions be developing iPhone applications, for exmple? Applets for the Apple may make good press, but one questions their point when confronted with statistics like this: "MS Windows (93.51%), Apple Macintosh (5.05%), Linux (0.67%), iPhone (0.34%), Symbian (012%) and iPod (0.11%)" And what are we to say about the Linux and even Apple numbers? Brian Kelly asks, "And at a time when, if the predictions are correct, we may see a reduction in staffing levels, do these figures suggest that the time and effort in testing Web sites on the Linux platform may not be justified?"

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