India launches $35 tablet for students.

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Try to get a loan to start a trading firm and see how far you get.
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No one in their right mind is going to lend people money to gamble, sorry, trade.
 
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I was looking into buying one, but the for-public version is $70 and is called Ubislate. I am not crazy about tablets, but at the $50 price point I'd buy one. $70 is slightly pushing it, but I'd buy it just to try it. I'd also buy a Nano car if I could, but none of this stuff is available to us here.
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why should it be wherever your here is. $ only refers to the $US?
 
Govt is giving 50% subsidy on this tablet.
This could be another scam in India.
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$35 sounds cheap to us, but factor in what the average indian makes. The average indian earns about $100 per month, so $35 is 35% of his monthly income. The average American makes about $3800 per month to equate what they pay vs what we pay in percentage, would be like us paying $1,330 for a tablet. How many of us would pay that?
 
I understand the numbers...

What I'm seeing is a government initiative in education that has the potential to leap frog over our system here. It's not just the device but the infrastructure, education delivery system and their vision in getting their entire population online and interconnected. CBT university degrees with online drill down transcripts and competency testing.

They have a population of over 500,000,000 under the age of 25 and are projecting 1B by 2015. They are arming them with technology to compete in the global workforce. This is the workforce our youngsters will compete with in 5 years outnumbered almost 20/1.

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$35 sounds cheap to us, but factor in what the average indian makes. The average indian earns about $100 per month, so $35 is 35% of his monthly income. The average American makes about $3800 per month to equate what they pay vs what we pay in percentage, would be like us paying $1,330 for a tablet. How many of us would pay that?
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what is with this liberal fantasy that a computer is the salvation of poverty

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India is launching a cheap tablet computer it says will deliver modern technology to help lift villagers out of poverty.

The computer, called Aakash, or "sky" in Hindi, is the latest in a series of cheap Indian innovations that include a 100,000 rupee ($2,040) Nano car, a 750 rupee ($15) water purifier and $2,000 open-heart surgery.

Government subsidies promise a $35 price tag for students and teachers, with a regular retail price of about $45 from manufacturer Datawind.

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/india-...launching-ceremony-delhi-photo-111414622.html

The tablet is manufactured by DataWind has a 7"Android 2.2 touch screen, HD and video co-processor. The govt will be providing free wifi and cloud computing services. Seems the Indian Government is looking to leap frog over the US in terms of a national digital infrastructure and citizen access.


I think we pay $35 for an iphone case here.
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I'm sure there's reasons why something is in a given market or not in a given market. I am just the sort of consumer who'd be willing to try new things in hopes of finding a deal before the public starts creating demand, causing companies to charge premiums on their products.

So, for my purposes, I am definitely willing to try cheap foreign technology.
 
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The world needs another trading firm like I need a hole in my head.

There is all kinds of financing avaliable for real businesses. Perhaps part of the problem is so many think "trading" is a real business.
 
Been trying something similiar in Australia, turns out most of the new putas/laptops in classrooms are too damn slow for basic stuff, poor eyesight issues at earlier ages.



Meanwhile, literacy levels, handwriting are largely non-existent, and IT backup requirements have gone through the roof, and likely playing Wii in a rubber room will pass for what used to be called "sport" or physical ed.

Paperless office, my ass.
 
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