Indians ‘want hi-tech products’ not dated slow junk
A close friend of mine works in the US Government and was trying to pitch me on the $100 wind-up crank laptop that has been designed by MIT. As an MIT alumni he took pride in MIT’s recent laptop and how it will increase connectivity and bring computing to developing nations. Now it seems that India is having concerns about the PC makers dropping our left over junk on them at cheap prices. I don’t blame them as I wouldn’t want a Qwerty keyboard! Hindi has 36 consonants that can be modified to make 1,500 separate syllables. Try doing that on a Qwerty keyboard!
Ajay Gupta, who heads the Indian labs of Hewlett Packard, said it was a myth that Indians wanted cheap goods. Mr Gupta’s comments came two weeks after chip maker Intel announced a computer specifically for the Indian market. The Intel Community PC is built to withstand the dust and humidity of many parts of India as well as the sometimes erratic power supply that can damage standard computers. It runs on open-source software and costs just over 300 ($525).
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