On Jan 9, 2013, at 2:03 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > These questions deserve a complete response, but I don't have all the answers > myself. > (I'm "OLPC Foundation", not "OLPC Association".)
As OLPC Association, I can't do much better. The engineering team (sitting around Scott) hasn't seen this software either... Scott talked about the software. In a likewise manner, the OLPC engineering team had nothing to do with the hardware of the OLPC Learning Tablet. It is a Chinese design, probably running on a Rockchip SoC (that is the company name, not the SoC name). The XO-4 Touch was also announced at CES! This is where we are currently focused. Place your orders now! Cheers, wad > The short version of the story is that OLPC-A has licensed out the XO name to > two groups, in an effort to increase the penetration of the OLPC ideas. One > group created the "XO Learning" environment, which is a skinned version of > Android loaded with a bunch of licensed educational software (from sesame > street, little pim, etc). The other group created the "XO Learning tablet", > which is to be sold in large quantities at Walmart. The "XO Learning tablet" > runs the "XO Learning environment", and I think the idea is that eventually > there may be multiple hardware licensees running the "XO Learning > environment" being sold by various retailers. This would allow price > competition to bring down the price of educational tablets for 1st world > retail sale. > > The software isn't really "by OLPC", more like "inspired by and licensed from > OLPC". That said, it doesn't look half-bad in the demos. I'm cautiously > optimistic this might get some good educational content in front of another > 200,000 or so kids. Fingers crossed... > --scott > > -- > ( http://cscott.net ) > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
