OLPC Pushes the XO Laptop in an Already Saturated Market

[JMcEntegart]

Following a certain lag in government sales, the OLPC foundation has decided to revive its Give One, Get One (aka G1G1 program) in cooperation with Amazon.

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[Guest]

I've written a short response to this article because I heartily disagree with many of your comments here. Specifically the notions of competition and "market saturation", and "inferiority" of the XO versus things like the EEE PC. I'm not an OLPC zealot, I just don't see the doom and gloom you're talking about.

Please have a read here:
http://www.buzzmoo.com/?p=160

 

[megamanx00]

OLPC has failed due to leadership. The G1G1 program was a fine idea but they could have continued it or simply sold single units for $300 when people would have bought them.

 

[Guest]

What do you mean by failed? 5000 units made it to Rwanda last week to make a total of about half a million deployed to places in need, worldwide.

Kids are getting them and using them - wow on earth is this failure?

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