[om-council] An opportunity for us with low-income people? (was Re: i586)

Tomasz Gajc tpgxyz at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 11:46:55 EDT 2016


Fact is that amount of people using 5$ or 9$ systems on sigle chip are
growing while amount of people using ix86 is decreasing.
We must follow a trend and support those platforms which has future.

2016-04-25 14:02 GMT+02:00 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero at lindev.ch>:

> On 2016-04-25 12:22, Tomasz Gajc wrote:
>
> People with low income, buys Raspberry Pi 0,1 or 2
>>
>> See only 5$ for a working computer
>> http://www.microcenter.com/product/457746/Raspberry_Pi_Zero
>>
>
> Or this one for $9
> http://getchip.com/pages/chip
>
> There may actually be an opportunity for us in those kinds of devices.
>
> The reality right now is that those boards are perfect computers for
> low-income people - they get essentially all they need from a computer
> (except the display, keyboard and mouse) at a price even the poorest can
> afford -- but at the same time, they have no idea about it because the
> computer shops they go into won't tell them because they want to make big
> $$$ selling a Microsoft box.
> Instead of the low-income people, the guys ending up buying those
> less-than-$10 full computers are high-income tech people who want to have
> fun and do crazy things with them.
>
> They also seem to be marketed way more for this type of use than as a
> computer for low income people (obviously - people working on them are just
> like us, they know how the tech world ticks, but they have not necessarily
> even met a really poor person in their lives).
>
> If we can get OMLx to work well on one of those (I have a C.H.I.P.
> prototype, so can look into it a bit when Lx3 is done), there may be an
> opportunity to put it into a super-cheap but acceptable case, bundle with a
> cheap but ok keyboard and mouse (and possibly display, but that may be
> optional because most poor people have a TV they could use as output
> device) and just market it as a complete computer for those who can't
> afford to or don't want to shell out hundreds of $$$.
>
> One concern is that they're low on memory (Pi 0 and C.H.I.P. are both
> limited to 512 MB RAM, not sure if they can run that many useful things
> even on top of LXQt).
> But there's some options that are much better and still quite affordable
> (e.g. Pi 3, HiKey, DragonBoard 410c). And all of them are marketed towards
> tech people, not so much poor people in need of a computer.
>
> So here's a question for the marketing team -- can we reach that group, or
> groups that want to help them? (Let's assume logistics are sorted out, I
> have "access" to people who are skilled enough to put a board into a case,
> put in an SD card, verify it boots, and mail it anywhere in the world.)
>
> ttyl
> bero
>
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