Moving targets

Posted May 26, 2008 6:17 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: OLPC 2.0: towards the US$75 laptop (apc) by showell
Parent article: OLPC 2.0: towards the US$75 laptop (apc)

Of course the project would have been more successful if the initial target had been $200! But then Negroponte wouldn't have created so much hype, attracted so many brilliant people, burnt them along the way, and so on.

I wonder if the Eee and similar UMPCs would have got where they are now without the XO. My take is: probably the XO didn't make a difference there. Other devices like the wonderful Nokia Internet Tablets had nothing to do with OLPC, and there they are. Therefore Negroponte's next milestone doesn't mean too much for the industry.