Dear GKD Members,
Tom Abeles is absolutely right, and I do like his slogan about not trying
to
make the past cheaper.
To this I would add that this is an area where market forces do work to
our benefit, the large volumes of potential sales in phones and music
players and the strong competition
On Thursday, July 21, 2005, Tom Abeles wrote:
I think that it is nice to think about the $100 computer. But one
needs to remember that cell phones are ubiquitous and relatively low
cost. One post secondary education institution is developing curricula
using the cell phone as the device of
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