[OT] India comes up with Squeak PDA?

Gary Fisher gafisher at sprynet.com
Mon Jul 15 21:49:13 UTC 2002


Please excuse a wee bit of negativity, but the Simputer business model
seemed flawed from the start.  Hard to imagine a PDA-level "personal
computer" intended to be passed around among entire villages.  Still, the
need must be addressed somehow, and not only in India.

Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Rueger" <m.rueger at acm.org>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: India comes up with Squeak PDA?


>
> Seems like they are (already) in trouble:
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/779559.asp?0dm=B18MT&cp1=1
>
> Michael
>
> Jerome Chan wrote:
> > CNN has an article about India's PDA.
> >
> > BANGALORE, India (Reuters) -- India is ready this month to roll out its
> > $200 "Simputer," a handheld computer aimed at wooing the poor across the
> > digital divide.
> >
> > http://asia.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/07/05/india.simputer.reut/index.html
> >
> > It runs Linux so Squeak should already work on this machine.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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