Hi Simran, Well the billion is probably the number they put on *their* business plan.
With the passing of Steve Jobs and the changeover to pad computers it's just interesting to think of where things will be in the next few years. In my scouting about Asia, I've met quite a number of extremely wealthy Indians. They're really keen to grow the computer industry in that country and Bangalore, while being a tough place, has gone from nothing to something in not a long period of time. Some of the lessons that Apple have taught us is that great design and great branding are valuable assets. They simply took linux, beautified it and .. well.. look at that.. Apple was largely a design in America, make in china company. It's a given that the finance to make a world class pad computer isn't going to be made available in Australia. However, I suspect that getting finance to build a pad computer company in India wouldn't be as difficult as it would be here. I'm not in such a hurry to do that. But I have sold computers in Asia and I know how willing in some Indian circles they are to fund efforts like this. In Australia, we have things like Puppy Linux which could be used as a base. I'm very sure that even a weak-knee'd Aussie Pad OS effort would get a good return on investment. Take a Pad company from here to India then to Europe or the US. But it would take a few dozen people to get all the branding and hardware design done. David ps: ARM processors and memory, displays are getting really cheap now. A lot of the chinese cheap pads I'm not so keen on because their user interfaces leave a bit to be desired. I guess that's what Apple fixed.. and charged so much for. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
