Bill Gates is openly mocking plans to provide low-cost high-durability laptops to the developing world. Because, in his words,
“If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you’re not sitting there cranking the thing while you’re trying to type”
It takes some serious chutzpah to tell poor people that a possible avenue of self betterment should be closed because it’s not equal to Microsofts 999$ portable computer, which is what he was punting at that conference according to Reuters. It probably never occured to Bill that broadband isn’t necessarily an option in rural India.
Hey, if you can’t afford whatever crap Microsoft’s pushing today, why bother using a computer, right?
