On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net> wrote:

Le Jeu 22 mars 2012 14:11, Przemek Klosowski a écrit :
> On 03/22/2012 02:31 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> That opinion is flat out ridiculous. Or maybe it makes sense if you
>>> think consumer desktops are the be-all and end-all; but they are not.
>>
>> Consumer desktops and notebooks. The things we normally call "computers".
>> Those have always been and should remain our primary target.
>>
> Check out the numbers from The Economist:
> http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/full-width/20111008_SRM111.gif
>
> The number of desktops has been flat for last 7 years. The growth in the
> smartphone/tablet area dwarfs 'what we normally call computers'.

Apples and oranges. You could print the same stats a few years ago about cars
vs scooters/bicycles

Guess what all the Chinese/Indian bicycle riders started to buy as soon as
they had the means to…

All those numbers show is that the developing countries are actually
developing (surprise!), and that they transition from nothing to cheapest
solution possible. That does not mean they'll stick to this stage forever.

So you guess that they'll move on to desktop computers as long they have the means, and we should not bother investing resources to this intermediate phase. Even if it last for years.

Despite the fact that this is pretty wild guess, I don't think that Fedora should only care about what's happening on the developed countries and ignore the rest of the world.

Bottom line, it seems apples and apples to me. Naming it oranges just to ignore it, doesn't qualify as an argument.