On Nov 16, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Ed Crelin wrote:

> Yeah, they rightfully declined Jobs' offer for free OS X for these  
> puppies as well, although it would have upped the overall  
> functionality out of the box. Maybe it'll get him to

The things I like most about this proposal is that it

	- drives down the price point
	- drives down the common barriers (power, wiring ...)
	- opens development to a whole new world of developers

The things I don't like about this model is that it

	- perpetuates keyboard thinking (what a terrible thing  to teach a  
chinese child !...)
	- perpetuates "drawing with a brick" (it's hard enough to draw with  
a brush, let alone a brick)
	- perpetuates operating system thinking (the database model of the  
newton and palm are better tools for learning and thinking)

But, hey, it's MIT and it's USA and it's $100 ... Next year it will  
be Beijing, 8 different "dialects", and 100 yuan ... and everything I  
know will be proven to be wrong.

Steve