When Union minister for human resources Kapil Sibal announced last year that India was all set to launch a $35 tablet, it drew admiration, awe and wonder. It made headlines in mainstream media across the world. While some hailed, there were those also who derided what they called an almost impossible feat. Almost a year later, the ambitious product is yet to see the light of the day. There were many who perhaps secretly wished it would never happen.
Until Sibal made the announcement in the summer of 2010, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT) Labs and Classmate PC from Intel were positioned as the cheapest laptops targeted at school-going children and would have been directly impacted by any such product in the market. |
