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Can XO 2 reignite OLPC? 06:47am on 21 May 2008 My sense is that, more important than the planned redesign, there has been a change in attitude. Negroponte's quote that the "agenda" is now to get other people to "copy" the design seems very significant. Bender and others have had positive opinions of competition, in the past, but this acknowledgement by Negroponte that encouraging imitators can be part of the strategy makes the project sound more like an education project than what it has become.
Also, marketing an attractive device to a U.S. audience seems like a new approach for Negroponte and his team.
As for the device concept itself, I think it takes part in a new category of portable electronics. It's a bit sad that Negroponte should remain so close-minded about potential uses for some of these tools ("a cell phone is not a learning device") but, at least, there's a recognition that the keyboard-centric "laptop" (or subnotebook) may not be the best choice in multilingual contexts which give no specific value to touch typing.

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