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I think this is a very promising development (OLPC anyone?) but Android is cheerfully doing this organically: "Looking at nice dual-core dual-SIM 3G Android fo
by Tloewald 13y ago
I think this is a very promising development (OLPC anyone?) but Android is cheerfully doing this organically:
"Looking at nice dual-core dual-SIM 3G Android for $30-40 wholesale. Quad-core for $100-125. And increasingly hard to tell apart from premium" (tweet from @BenedictEvans this morning).
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoWhy did Ben Evans suddenly discover, about three years too late, that Android is open source and powering all kind of weird experiments? Is it to do with his new job?
- Tloewald 13y agoI think the point is that the market is cheerfully generating super cheap Android phones without any help from the Mozilla foundation.
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoYes, and that's a entirely fair observation, but he's been full of these "amazing" stories about cheap android, and its use in developing nations for the last few months. That didn't just happen, and he presumably knew about it before, because that's his full-time job, so what changed?
- Tloewald 13y agoI'm not trying to promote Benedict Evans as some kind of guru, merely quoting him as a source of information (rather than pulling something out of my ass). I usually find him reliable if not revelatory.