One Disadvantage Is The Concept Of
One disadvantage is the concept of this low cost lightweight laptop has a lack of awareness of how the laptop would educate children and market problem. OLPC’s mission is to help children for learning and developing knowledge throughout the low cost laptop and it calls an education project (LOPC mission). The point is that OLPC needs to educate foreign countries and their governments of education about the feature of this laptop works, and most importantly, what are the key essential techniques of current education system. OLCP can’t just come up the concept and let other solve problems themselves. OLCP needs to engage in significant negotiation in order to solve the confusion of this concept idea and rather to let others suspect this concept for making money. According to the wall street journal, the founder Nicholas Negroponte’s goal is hoping within the four years to have “150 million of the world’s poorest schoolchildren” have their “$100 laptop” on hands; but nearly three years later, the goal seems unfulfilled by the end of 2008 (Stecklow and Bandler). For the reason why they plan didn’t accomplish because the products seem new for them and these countries might be under the economically unstable which they could not decide to purchase a massive amount of new laptops.
OLPC Mission http://laptop.org/en/vision/mission/ Title: A Little Laptop With Big ambitions
Stecklow,Steve and Bandler,James. “A Little Laptop With Big ambitions” Nov, 24 2007 http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB119586754115002717 Another disadvantage is some competitors of technology industry has quick movement when OLPC releases the concept of helping children’ knowledge. Other competitor like Inter is quick to innovate and introduce their new low-price product in early January 2008 (Nick Bushak). Thus, OLPC needs to take advantage of its initiative and establish itself as the category leader to prevent competitor encroaches. So, the bottom of the pyramid market is now a focus the attention