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$100 laptop now slated at $188
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What are your veiws on this. $100 laptops to be given away free to poor children in poor countries had price increased. How can you put a price on the happiness of poor, deprived, suffering children who live in cheap houses, worse than any cheap apartment building, worse than the streets of new york city?
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Quite easily. The raw materials cost money. It takes work to make the parts. The people doing this work need to feed their families and so need to be paid a wage. You can get rid of all the company's profits from the process (as well as copyrighted material which cost nothing to replicate), but it still costs money.
To be honest they invented cameras and the victorians made porn, they invented sculture and the romans made statues of willies, someone created paint and people drew pictures of people shagging - not a new problem...
Well, someone has to pay for them else the company will lose alot of money.
And....they're still free to the end user aren't they?
Maybe there has been a price increase in raw materials and wages, I do remember seeing that story quite a while ago.
but an amusing one for my underdeveloped mind
Indeed, we seem to attract porn link here too
I have to say though, as a teenage porn watcher, although watching some porn if you took it literally (the 'omg that cock is so good im having multiple orgasms every minute') it can give you a skewed view of real sex - if you watch the amatuer stuff it's actually not bad at all. Gives much needed sexual relief, get to see stuff that you're curious about but society has deemed as bad, except for the 5 minute talk inc. diagram of giving birth in sex education - but with porn you can actually see real people having sex. (Or in my case, as I was 'green', real women naked lol - though no doubt people would argue they're not real..)
I have succesfully thrown this topic off topic though. So I apologise.
Originally the price was supposed to come down from $100 wasn't it? As volumes increased...
You should really post a link so we can read back ground info on this
Also the value of the Dollar has probably gone down loads since the project first started. So the real price increase isn't likely to be 88%
It does seem a shame but it follows one of the three rules of new ventures! Sale price (what people are willing to pay I mean) always overestimated, production cost always underestimated, and time to get the money back / from plans to production / sale are always underestimated.
Now I got my new Mini Desktop I see I'm able to do things much faster then before like resizing my holiday photos, turning them into DVD movie slideshows, etc
unfortunately no one's posted any decent links for me to comment on ..
The idea of selling in the west is that you pay double the price of the laptop so you get one and some kid in the 3rd one gets one free... seems alright to me.
prices will go down in time (unless there's an earthquake in Japan)
Personally I'm not sure we should be giving every kid in the world a laptop .. what's wrong with paper and a pencil? And even if we are going down that route why produce millions of laptops with a QWERTY keyboard designed from the days of the typewriter to making typing slower and more difficult and more of strain on people's hands?
I think they should all have internet access in school and see other parts of the world, etc.. but considering people in many countries don't have clean water I think sorting out the basics of life should come first.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6994957.stm
*** link here! ***
Just up today
I've erm, posted a link to the beeb!
So anyone planning to buy one (and of course donate one?)
Cos I suspect the VAST majority of people wouldn't have a clue what you were on about in the first place. What makes you think everyone knows what the $100 laptop project is about?
And the laptop was never meant to start at $100 anyway that was the target price once they reached economies of scale... as referred to in the BBC news link.