Satish Jha wrote: >If you go to the two sites that sell "simputer".. one of them (amida) sells >a color screen based contraption with modem and other necessary peripherals >to make it work at $650 or so plus taxes and the other one (netcore) at >about half the price (though I am not sure about the screen quality).. > >unless it is produced in larger lot sizes.. at least 100 times larger than >current production it price can not be halved.. > >Its possible that at over 10 million unit lots its cost can be brought down >to about $150 or under.. presuming such scale will necessitate various >management responses that will focus on cost reduction to make it >competitive.. but production can be scaled up only in response to demand.. > > So why not do that instead of hopping onto Yet Another Initiative? What you wrote above has ever been the point I have been making.
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