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While Greg Hinzman might not be a fan of the OLPC, ZDNet's Robin Harris insists it's "the best designed notebook in the world." Click here to read Harris' in-depth take on the machine, including testimony from a father whose son actually has--and uses, more importantly--one of the devices.
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Just to clarify; what I said was that this is a case where good design isn't enough.
I have had positive things to say about the design of the OLPC laptop itself. It's the business model, marketing strategy and the fact that the product, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, seems to have ignored some customer needs.
The OLPC was intended to be sold to the governments of developing countries, thus the customer is different than the end user, so a myopic focus on the end user can result in a nice product that doesn't sell. Mr. Negroponte had intended to sell millions of units in 2008 to developing countries alone and has since scaled back to hoping to sell 300,000 (and even that is going to require sales to developed countries). Enough said.