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as an owner of 2 OLPC laptops, I submit that it is not the model of usability and maintenance you seek.
by niels_olson 17y ago
as an owner of 2 OLPC laptops, I submit that it is not the model of usability and maintenance you seek.
- wmf 17y agoI agree that they never got there, but they were trying.
- KirinDave 17y agoLots of people are trying. Only Apple actually seems to be making forwards-edge progress? In order to compete with Apple, people need to try less and succeed more, otherwise Apple's superior user experience is going to steamroll any ideological benefits.
- cookiecaper 17y agoWell, OLPC has different goals. OLPC is meant to spark an interest in computers and teach people in third-world countries how to program so that they can deploy that skill to bootstrap themselves out of poverty. The ability to uncover complexity is therefore fundamental to the OLPC, and its design hints toward it. iPad is for people who are content to use Facebook.