____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 29 September 2007 10:25 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ John Bailo, Texeme.Construct on Monday 24 September 2007 16:39 : \____
>>
>>> On Sep 24, 7:12 am, "Sir Michael Clayton" <clay...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/Looking-for-a-spark-developingw...
>>>>
>>>> In September 2005, he (Negroponte) was saying that 5 million to 15 million
>>>> machines might be in production in 2006, with perhaps 100 million out by
>>>> now. In April 2006 he foresaw 5 million to 10 million XOs dotting the
>>>> landscape in 2007.
>>>>
>>>> Now 250,000 to 300,000 are due to be made by the end of this year.
>>>> Negroponte expects that to ramp up to 1 million a month next year, though
>>>> he still lacks signed orders for that many.
>>>
>>> I heard Steve Jobs made an offer to Negroponte.
>>>
>>> They share similar marketing tactics.
>>
>> Yes but no. Steve offered OS X for free, but Nick declined the offer. He
>> wanted an O/S that can be explored and tone which is independent from a
>> company. He had a good plan but ugly human nature (vicious corporate greed)
>> he didn't account for. The project was on track before Intel, Microsoft, and
>> their many lobbying arms had people brainwashed and tempted to look
>> elsewhere.
>
> It will be successful, of course. Any project which is undermining
> current business models will certainly hit massive political lobbying,
> and this one was without doubt no exception. Still, the model is
> excellent, the prices are good, and the design is very revolutionary in
> many respects.
>
> That someone made sales predictions which were not met is hardly
> amazing. Just look at Microsoft's predictions for sales of Vista. If
> they can be *so* wrong, it's a little rum to criticise the OLPC project
> for predictions which are probably no more accurate.
Actually, the predication might not be so far off... they sell a lot of Vista
to a lot of shelves... or they send out a lots of "Vistas" that go right into
the bit bucket when the buyer receives the PC. S/he proceeds to installing
GNU/Linux or Windows XP.
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