Babby’s first contract
It’s not just the screen size of Apple’s upcoming tablet that will please Kay, but the fact that Apple is reportedly selling its tablet with a 3G data plan…In fact, it’s been the challenges faced by the One Laptop per Child project in particular, for which he’s an adviser, that have solidified his belief that the PC industry needs to move away from just selling hardware and towards a service-based model that could be used to establish an educational infrastructure. “It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships,” he told me, something that mobile phone companies have been practicing for years.
Because what I really want to do when I buy a new bit of kit for my hypothetical child is sign a contract on hir behalf—sorry, begin a “sustaining relationship” with a US cellphone carrier.
