OLPC faces 'vicious' rivalry in laptop market

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I live in a so called "third world country"

And in my opinion Negroponte did a stupid and mistakenly marketing research seeing NatGeo TV, for example here i can buy a old-and-second-handed-but-usable pc for less that $70 ($90 with a printer), so what is the point to buy a EXPENSIVE AND USELESS "semi notebook" instead to buy a real computer?. Operating system?, who cares, you can install linux for free or you can use a "bootleg" windows copy also for free. Low power, maintenance?, we don't really care, if fail then we can toss it (recycle it) and buy a "new" one.

Negroponte failed because:
-miss the target price.
-miss the market.
-miss the deadline (by 2 years!).
-miss the specifications (removing key components).
-miss the expectation.
-miss the marketing channel, also the customers.
-miss the community (inside and outside OLPC foundation).
-miss the manufacturing and developing process.

also..
-miss the usability, sugar ui stink!.

Posted by: magallanes   Posted on: 09/23/08  (Edited: 09/23/2008 @ 02:46) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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