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On 22/09/10 21:04, Simon Waters wrote: > On 22/09/10 17:18, tom brough wrote: >> >> Impressive IF I can really get one for $35 dollars..... > > You won't get it for $35. > > Capitalism may be bad at many things, but I suspect the cost of consumer > electronics in such a competitive market is pretty close to rock bottom > already. > > $35 sounds like a manufacturing price from the announcement, it excludes > software. > > With the Simputer there was a significant manufacturing license fee, and > the device only sold 4,000 units, resulting in no one making any money. > > So assume 1,000,000 USD license fee (to pay for the Indian scientists), > chuck in 100% retail mark-up, and maybe another 20 USD per unit for > software costs, and you are talking about ~120 USD device retail. If you > can guarantee selling more than 50,000 of them one might even make a > profit at that price. > > You can already buy Brand name tablets in the 120 USD price range > running Android if that is what you want. > Yes but the price to students in India will be $35 which can only be a good thing (for them). Accepted that worldwide price will inflate but I would hope not to the extremes of $120. However even if this is so it reaches a market price better than OLPC which only managed to crack the $200 mark. As I understand it the Indian governments first batch is 1 Million @ $35 dollars. So larger batches would presumably drive costs down even more. The only thing we can do is wait and see what really happens, but frankly I hope the Indian Government get a good return on such an investment. Tom. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq