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Develop for the next billion users

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The next Billion users The next billion users will be on low-end devices, in regions where there is barely internet or even electricity. But even today there are people in your neighbourhood that have old computers, low-end notebooks, low-end smartphones. Another issue is data, mobile data is expensive. In Africa there are regions where people come together at antennas and generators to connect and charge. People don’t need your new shiny update if it only tweaks the UI and adds a lame feature, it’s too expensive. In that same population are a lot of people that would benefit from having an identity on a blockchain. But we don’t reach them because our apps are too fat, too many files, too much JavaScript, too many network calls, too much online. In the beginning there was HTML5 & Friends I started during the HTML5 period and have been a fan since the first hour. I got even better HTML/CSS/JS super powers with all the new Web API's. I was very again...