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Are his quoted 1.4bn Android devices all outside of China? If not then the numbers for mobile and desktop come out pretty similar:

    1.3bn non-China Android users = 1.4bn Android users - 0.386bn China Android users [1]
    1.28 searches/user/day = 50bn searches / (1.3bn users * 30 days)
That 1.28 for mobile is pretty close to the 1.23 quoted for desktop

[1] https://www.techinasia.com/china-386-million-active-android-...

"don't watch my video unless you pay $5"

This is an explicit agreement between the customer and content provider. YouTube, Google search, etc don't have any explicit agreement with users in this regard -- the ads just show up.

The TOS says it, your understanding of their business model conveys it, but at the end of the day they just shove the ads in there without directly claiming to their customers, "you must see ads and be tracked to get free content".

I think usage would change dramatically if they actually claimed this when a user first uses their service.

Kinda surprised by the rise in markdown editors whose selling point is the live preview mode. I always felt that the best feature of markdown was that the raw text made it somewhat obvious how it should be rendered. If a preview mode is need I almost want to jump straight to a WYSIWYG editor

Thanks for the feedback!

* Fixed the scrolling issue. Ios safari doesn't let you disable the bounce so there is a workaround now.

* Ios back gesture works fine... Except in mobile safari, again because there is no way to disable apples back gesture. This would work best in phonegap or Kik where you can control these kinds of things

* Will fix subject bug in demo soon..

It's actually just using the browsers scrolling mechanism. Android 4+, iOS 5+ ship with touch-scrolling that you can enable on an element so it's as close to native scrolling as you can get.

Just add this CSS:

    overflow: scroll;
    -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;

You still have "to pray the developers left" you a method to get the data in either case as native apps are simply the client-side of an application (just like a web apps).

The "openness" of the web is mostly referring to the technology stack (open source rendering engines), the standards, and the freedom of distribution. All of those points are not fully "open" and that's what I think they're referring to when they say that "the web may not be fully open".