> OLPC has been challenged because too many dynamics of the effort were simply > ignored...
Negraponte promised 100 million users: couldn't deliver a minute fraction of it. He promised a $100 PC: delivered it at twice the price. He promised a revolutionary UI: he's now switching to Windows. He promised a third consumer-level PC platform as an alternative: he's now serving the dominant player. He promised deployment without support: he neither deployed nor supported it. And so on. If a public company CEO made these outlandish promises (and predictably delivered none of it) he'd be sued by shareholders to smithereens. Now, he's promising an enlarged iPhone sandwich at $75, targeted to, for all we know, 500 million users. How does one take any of this seriously? -- Kontra http://counternotions.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
