I find it a very interesting posting and suggestions and critique like this can help evolve a "product".. It will be good to see a well considered response to this post from those who are engaged in its development. Thanks
On 12/5/05, Udayasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi to the top brass and folks at Simputer, > > > I am yet to see a simputer but the media seems to assure me that it > is a wonderful device. OK it was made for the masses much like LPG > was intended for the rural areas. > > I believe that the costs come to almost 9000 rs, a price level the PC > is bound to drop to. So when will the Simputer reach critical mass?. > I am told that only 4000 have been sold. > > At this rate will it be able to succeed enough first as a product > that would last a lifetime, the answer on first looks seems to be no, > the makers seemed to have misjudged the ability of the industry to > reduce cost of hardware. We will surely have <10,000 machines, (linux > or no linux, heck , why doesnt anyone develop an OS which is not as > bloated as Win or even Linux I think QNX tried and abandoned it,) in > 2 years and the simputer will go probably into zombie mode. I hope > the guys at the top realise this. > > The LPG example was not unintentional. There exists a large market > for Net enabled thin clients and the simputer with a little > modification will fit the bill better than many other options on the > market. Its sexy too, looking at the pics. > > I can maintain my bank account, trade my stocks and shares, check my > mail, a lot of other things not only that the geeks do but what the > common man does. So if it is marketed that way and say on an > instalment basis the common man in India can carry his machine > everywhere he goes, making it popular will also popularise wireless > internet networks. KIds can take it to school, I do not know if there > are applications for that, but those can be developed > > The simputer poeple have a dark gem on their hands which if properly > marketed can earn them a lot of money which can be used to assuage > the social conscience they set out to solve in the first place. They > have something that can be sort of wildly succesful. > > It will sell even abroad. IT can quickly become an essential gadget, > try selling it thro stock exchanges first. Those who do daily trading > will be the first customers if you can show them how to. Then those > guys in the IT hotspots. And being noisy in general. The press > releases in simputer.org are dated. > > You can build up critical mass very quickly. > > Another application can be classware for students in both rich and > poor communities. > > It only needs a reorientation of the organisations vision, once they > are succesful and flush with money they can use it for good > development projects with the simputer as a base, perhas they can > even give one in 100 as free to a village. That will be practical and > pragmatic. > > > Remember this, success for any idea, product, organisation comes from > critical mass and the organisation will be poorer if its founders > fail to realise it and act fast to achieve it, once the PC lowers in > price then marketing this will be a further headache. So find > commercial uses before anything else, achieve critical mass before > anything else. Or the entire investment will only be wasted and > intended payback for the poor may never happen. > > Remember the LPG story. If you think abt it there are many more > lessons to be learnt from it. > > You have a gem in your hands, Use it. > > There is this story related by Napolean Hill in a book where a man > buys a plot and digs for oil and gives up. 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