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@rakamaka You have obviously, put a lot of effort into your post, but you make the same mistake *I* do which is obscure the points your trying to make. I'll try and ignore the waffle and respond to the points.

1) Mr Negroponte driven by intellectual not financial
2) 3rd World children backward
3) Limited by Small storage, and Display Size(hand cranking I thought had been removed)
4) What happens when something goes wrong.

In response.
1) The harsh reality of the things that would benefit the project, by it being driven by "The Marketplace"
is simply not going to happen for many reasons...The main one being there is not a computer marketplace. Its very monopolistic, Look at the main hardware, and software manufactures.

2) You really need to look at the countries this device is heading for. I just think you have the wrong end of the stick. I don't think you are intentionally being insulting.

3) The device is more powerful than you think. The harsh reality is that software evolves at much slower rate than hardware. The second point is look at what this device is designed for, and how it will be used. I can't think of anything that it needs to run where it needs more anything.

4) This is the only part that I think is interesting. You mistake what the device is, and how it is used. It is the going to be the largest manufacture of any single *hardware* platform ever. Think about the significance of that for moment. Now take a little time and look at what it *does*. Your analogy is soo off base it not comparable. In reality the OS in this instance works more like a Phone, PVR, blackberry, nokia 770