Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
It is in this climate of a crumbling dream that Nicholas
Negroponte has boldly announced the OLPC vision of a new XO model to be
delivered by 2010. Incredibly, the new model is envisaged to be
significantly more advanced and complex (dual touch screens and smaller
footprint) but targeted to sell at the incredibly low price point of
$75.
How such a machine as the XO-2 could be produced
and sold for $75 is something that Negroponte has yet to explain. No
doubt the skeptics who watched as the $100 laptop metamorphosed into
the $200 laptop are not waiting with baited breath.
As for the time frame of 2010, well two years is an eternity in the
world of high technology. It is also a long time for a rapidly
fragmenting organisation that has yet to prove its worth to continue to
stay afloat.
Come 2010, pardon me if I'm more concerned as to whether General Motors
can deliver the much anticipated Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid car than
whether the OLPC (if it still exists) delivers a $150 dual-screen
laptop that was originally promised to cost $75.
David Bass
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