There are many one-to-many device models which can work. Shameless plug to what we're working on at onebillion:

https://onebillion.org.uk/oneclass

That looks kind of cool. Reminds me of hanging in Malawi. It's interesting that all the educational materials I studied from birth to getting in to Cambridge would probably take about 30mb of storage and could fit on pretty much any modern device (excluding science practicals). We didn't have video etc. just ~13 text books and some teachers with chalk/white boards. It's always seemed to me that motivation is probably the biggest thing. A kid with a photocopied text book who is enthusiastic about reading it and doing the exercises will probably do better than a similar one with all the facilities who is unmotivated.

I dislike this. Where is the 'call for me to do something'? Why are there blurred people on an escalator(?). Don't make me pick between concise and reliable. I'm more than willing to distill your messaging if it would help in any way. If only as an alternative.

> Don't make me pick between concise and reliable.

You missed the tongue-in-cheek, there. "Concise and Reliable: Pick Two."

And those people are in a lecture hall. Under "Open-source community effort."

Not to mention lack of alpha transparency.

We're working on something similar for younger learners:

https://onebillion.org.uk/malawi

That's great if doing what you love gets you paid, like software.

If what you love isn't something that's considered economically viable, you're pretty much out of luck.

There is some truth in this, yet I'd describe myself as fortunate and passionate, not elite.

This is a pointlessramble. The winner(s) produce 8-bit dithered PNGs.

I'm wondering whether Apple will ever offer either: 1] a dedicated education app store, invisible to non-volume purchasers. 2] a mechanism for allowing volume purchases of in-app content.

I'm not a fan. I just don't get why they adapted FF Meta. It's overly complex (the 'g' for example), and not a great display font. They should strive for simplicity, rather than individuality. Android's Roboto and iOS's Helvetica Neue achieve this, my personal preference being for for latter.

Yeah, the kink in the lowercase y, the gap in the g, and a few other touches don't scale down well IMHO. I am a big fan of the trend of designing free typefaces for general use like this, though.

Fuzziness is subjective. iOS uses a similar font rendering method to OS X, without subpixel rendering. See: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/24/a-closer-look-at-...

Agreed. OSX's font rendering in my opinion is superior to Ubuntu and other Linux distros. It is subjective though - after all, some people claim to prefer ClearType.

I find this a doubled-edged sword. Monocultures are said to foster a culture of laziness, apathy. This hasn't been the case with WebKit. Don't get me wrong - competition is healthy. I'm simply thinking of how Jovinder experiences the web.

If you think WebKit hasn't fostered a culture of laziness and apathy among mobile web developers, try browsing the web using Firefox for Android or IE (on Windows Phone) sometime.

I've lost track of the number of times I've had to pretend to be something different (desktop Firefox, default Android, Mobile Safari ...) to make a website usable. Every time I have a fresh Firefox install on Android, the first extension I install is Phony.