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Story: Is the OLPC project doomed to failure?
Have you really read up on the OLPC?
These machines will not need the ecosystem you talk of. They'll have a browser - thus they can do pretty much anything. The web will be their ecosystem and the most important thing the OLPCs will offer is access to knowledge. That said - the technology in these machines is amazing and the battery life is unprecedented. I bet it will be the other way around - these machines will force other manufacturers to rethink their hardware designs.
You are also fundamentally wrong in the assumption saying "the last 10 years have seen very little movement in the price of low-end PCs". It is quite the opposite - the price of low-end machines have fallen steadily these last 10 years. It's really easy to prove you wrong, just Google "computer price statistics" and read up. Thin clients can't solve what the OLPC does since they require something at the other end of the cable that you happen to not mention in this article. As with other PCs, the price of the OLPCs are bound to fall when they gain volume. This article really comes across as a cheap attempt to pitch your own tech and smudge the OLPC project. Not very charming...
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