Ronald G Minnich wrote:
Wes Kussmaul wrote:
Nowhere near the quality of OLPC of course but if you put in a big
enough order with a manufacturer of DVD players for a machine
replacing the DVD drive with a keyboard, add ethernet and a couple of
gigs of flash and you could sell OLPWC (Western Cheapo) for under a
hundred dollars and make money on it.
I'm not convinced it's that easy. I've seen the components prices and
it sure looks hard to me to lower the price much. What's the target
volume of that dvd player?
Well that's the thing. The committed volume for that DVD player is
surely huge. But the economies that are a byproduct of the huge DVD
player volume are now available to others with only semi-huge commitments.
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Wes Kussmaul
CIO
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My uncle likes to say that the world’s biggest troubles started when the serpent said, “Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people collectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it’s the same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.” I don’t get the serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a bit obscure.
P.K. Iggy
_How I Like Fixed The Internet_
(Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009
and the prosperity that followed)
