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Ask HN: Is technology creating a great divide in working opportunity

5 pointsby mehta_rohanover 4 years ago
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?

6 comments

austincheneyover 4 years ago
I think this is an incorrect view of the problem. It isn't so much the perceived access to technology but rather theoretical familiarity of required concepts. For example a librarian or literary scholar would have a much greater understanding of computer science concepts, even without access to technology, than many children who tap a touch screen all day.
rvzover 4 years ago
If you&#x27;re talking about &#x27;apps&#x27; and &#x27;technology&#x27; then you should blame Apple and the app developers, as they are uninterested in backwards compatibility.<p>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&#x27;t supported. This happens on Android but it is not as enforced as it is on Apple devices.<p>So on mobile, yes it happens more with apps. But on the desktop users go for the web instead.
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emteyczover 4 years ago
Who 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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cblconfederateover 4 years ago
What 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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TimSchumannover 4 years ago
It 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!?!?’ ?<p>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.<p>Then again, maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about.
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st1x7over 4 years ago
Is 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&#x27;s being &quot;organised&quot;, what this has to do with working opportunity.
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