Story here (In response to the One Laptop Per Child project's demand that Intel curtail work on its Classmate PC and other cheap laptops, Intel resigned from OLPC's board and canceled plans for an Intel-based OLPC laptop.)
What began as a noble charitable endeavor to help 3rd-orld primary education, has ignited an arms race in the new market it created for cheap PC's? Or is the market in 1st world countries for these low-cost digital devices really for use as PC's? or rather, I speculate, they will be sold as enlarged PDA's activated by signing a contract with a wireless service provider... like an iPhone on steroids. If this is the case, Apple is only the first PC maker to begin to compete with cellphone manufacturers.
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