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More likely is that cell phones all have mobile data, whereas laptops have not historically had that except on high end business models. Devices are pretty usel
by b9a2cab5 5y ago
More likely is that cell phones all have mobile data, whereas laptops have not historically had that except on high end business models. Devices are pretty useless to the average person without the internet, so in places with poor connectivity laptops end up being useless.
- cbhl 5y agoOLPC also suffered from durability issues (repairs required sending the laptop back to the US, IIRC?) and cost issues (they never did hit the $100/unit price point) Even Raspberry Pi leverages the scale of Broadcom chips, which also get used in Android phones
- na85 5y agoOLPC was a really cool idea, but it turned out to be yet another in a long line of "good-idea fairy visits a wealthy first-worlder with yet another way to fix the third world", like What Three Words, etc.
- azinman2 5y agoThat’s a pretty revisionist history that ignores a lot of how it was done. It required local partnerships, used a lot of local educational material, and had a huge amount of involvement on the ground during deployments. It also ignores that the very cell phone penetration we see earlier also comes from wealthy countries in creation — the main OS is still supplied by Google.
- type0 5y agoThat's exactly how it goes, unfortunately for more and more people Fecabook is "The Internet" edit: Oh , spelled it incorrectly, but a better way to spell it would be Fecalbook for the amounts of shit posted there.
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