The government isn't making tablets in the same way they make watches (HMT Watches) or artificial limbs ( Artificial Limbs Mfg. Corpn. Of India). The government

The government isn't making tablets in the same way they make watches (HMT Watches) or artificial limbs ( Artificial Limbs Mfg. Corpn. Of India). The government floated a tender and a private company developed the tablet. There is a huge difference between the two. Also, if this device proves to be the best way to deliver essential public services (e.g. education, tele-medicine, etc.), it most certainly is the job of the government to make tablets. If this is a platform on which people can innovate and build apps on top of, it is not a stretch to compare this to US federal funding of basic science.