GE is being congratulated for recognizing that the iPhone and iPad are pretty good ideas and technological realizations. But isn't this like the congratulations Bill Gates got for finally recognizing the Internet (about 25 years after it had started working)?
Seems as though Apple had a lot more on the ball than Bill Gates or GE here (they used to do computing in the 60s, but couldn't see what it was).
And most of the ideas at Apple (and for personal computing and the Internet) came from research funding that no company or government has been willing to do since 1982.
Cheers,
Alan
________________________________ From: Carlos Rabassa carnen@mac.com To: america-latina@squeakland.org; squeakland.org mailing list squeakland@squeakland.org; Maho 2010 maho@realness.org; IAEP SugarLabs iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; voluntarios y administradores OLPC para usuarios docentes olpc-sur@lists.laptop.org; olpc bolivia olpc-bolivia@lists.laptop.org; OLPC Puno olpcpuno@gmail.com Sent: Sun, January 30, 2011 4:11:49 AM Subject: [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric
We try to learn from those who have succeed for a long time:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1XWm2q8nQ-l5KUJ_PWkQruLDx-nZ7nsKDfg4...
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