I found my (Waterloo) apartment sublet listing more successful in attracting customers on Craigslist than Kijiji. Maybe different items are more successful on one space than the other.
Absolutely not true, I live in Alberta and my experience is the same as joedrew. I also lived in Saskatchewan for a year and found that it was the same: Kijiji is by far the dominant online classifieds site.
I agree this will be the problem with service-like spaced repetition software like Memrise. They will start off with beginner examples and then totally drop off once you transition into intermediate.
My opinion is that SRS must be ingrained with your own interests. Additionally, the base decks on Memrise don't use further flash card techniques other than Q/A or word/definition. Cloze deletion cards come to mind when memorizing things much easier.
This is one of the problems. The framework is good, but content usually isn't. Content in SRS is really hard because language learning should collide with interests in order to feed the fuel.
More dedicated SRS users will just move to something more portable to create their content more easily/personally and beginners eventually drop off.
Probably not, since this article is about smartphones.
Edit: but I see your point (I think) - iPod Touch users are also buyers from the iOS app store. The latest data I can find is on ad requests, which is only tangentially related to adoption, but those numbers [1] suggest that there are a little more than a third as many iPod Touch users as there are iPhone users, and a bit more than half as many iPad users as there are iPhone users. Of course, there are a lot of non-smartphone Android devices out there now, too, so it's difficult to factor that in.
More context: As I'm jogging to work, there were students holding up boards with those posters right in front of the RIM buildings. I feel embarrassed as a fellow Waterloo student.
Yeah, cooping in Toronto right now, just asked a bunch of my friends at school about this... I share your embarrassment. It actually hurts that a company is trying to manipulate us like this. Not just because it's so blindingly obvious, but because it will work on enough people.
Wait, they're doing it and not getting paid by someone to do it? I mean people (usually ridiculously hot women) stand out on the street holding up signs telling me how awesome red-bull is.
It's pretty easy to pick up a street promotions crew. The job generally tends to have Abercrombie-style hiring practices, pays a bit more than minimum wage, and is pretty flexible.
I'd honestly be shocked if there were people dumb enough to do that for real.
I can say that the letter has truth in it. According to previous employees of RIM, both co-op and full-times, it's more businessman than techies. RIM really imposes ownership over their employees' ideas as well. I walk by the RIM buildings everyday on the way to school/work. Sometimes I take a look at the faces of people walking to their own RIM jobs. I can really see the lack of passion for their work.
http://www.ankiweb.net/
Anki's biggest goal seems to aim for cross-platform in use (even stretched to the NDS at one point).