- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 02:01:30 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- cc: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I accept the idea that it might now be doubtful, and the implied slap on the wrists for using a shaky and unresearched statistic is deserved. I don't think it is irrelevant, since the point I was making is that the growth is pretty fast, particularly in mobile services, and that leveraging web access with that growth seems a likely proposition for making growth in Web access faster still. I suggest that the reference Joe gives supports my assertion of fast growth. Further, the imediate conclusion I draw, that mobile web growth is likely to outstrip desktops, seems a fair extrapolation of the article's point. My final conclusion, that we had better be thinking reasonably soon about making sure we are getting it right for mobile systems that are shared as well as Desktops at home, doesn't change in the light of that. (Of course, that doesn't immediately answer the question of whether we can get people to upgrade browsers faster or slower than before...) Chaals On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Joe Clark wrote: > >Charles claims: > >> Fewer than half the world has ever made a telephone call, > >Doubtful, and irrelevant. See Clay Shirky: > ><http://shirky.com/writings/half_the_world.html> > > > -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +33 4 92 38 78 22 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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