Re: [Marketing] Competitive lanscape: $100 DMP Edubook

2009-10-08 Thread Bryan Berry
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 09:01 +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > The DMP Edubook could be a real opportunity for Sugar, because I > consider it unlikely that Microsoft will want to organize licensing of > local installation of Windows XP or Windows 7 over component parts. This absolutely a huge opportunity f

Re: [Marketing] Competitive lanscape: $100 DMP Edubook

2009-10-08 Thread Sean DALY
DMP's marketing is very slick - they identified that OLPC's credibility suffered by not hitting the $100 target. So DMP built a model with $100 as the ceiling. To do so, they took stuff out: the OS (optional), the component assembly (not included), wifi networking (optional apparently), localized k

Re: [Marketing] Competitive lanscape: $100 DMP Edubook

2009-10-07 Thread Tim McNamara
2009/10/8 Sean DALY > http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20091007PD223.html > > http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=67846&ctNode=413 > > > http://noticias.com.gt/economia/20090821-taiwan-propone-instalar-ensambladora-computadoras-guatemala.html > > > * Claim: $100 per unit (unassembled components,

[Marketing] Competitive lanscape: $100 DMP Edubook

2009-10-07 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20091007PD223.html http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=67846&ctNode=413 http://noticias.com.gt/economia/20090821-taiwan-propone-instalar-ensambladora-computadoras-guatemala.html * Claim: $100 per unit (unassembled components, no OS), with liberal dissing of OLP