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

Alexander Stefanov-Khryukin nobodydead at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 11:47:35 EDT 2016


agreed

2016-04-26 15:46 GMT+00:00 Tomasz Gajc <tpgxyz at gmail.com>:

> 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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