Talk:Top 10 Concerns

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http://www.sun2k.com/Software%20-%20Applications.htm

http://www.geocities.com/originalravinray/geos/history.htm

http://www.sun2k.com/Software%20-%20MinimumRequirement.htm

Olivier Tableau

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Those aren't "concerns"

The "top 10" aren't "concerns" for the most part - they're a grab-bag wish list.

Here's a real "concern": No matter how cheap they are, these are going to be valuable items. So how do you deal with this scenario:

"Day 1: The kids are so excited as they get their laptops. They seem to enjoy cranking them as much as using them!"

"Day 2: A few bad units have shown up - we've replaced them. Looks like maybe 1 in 5 have minor problems, and 1 in 20 have a fatal problem. No one on the introduction staff has any idea how to fix the latter, so for now we're just swapping them - we kept a small stock of units for just this case. Of couse, that means that fewer kids will be getting them than we'd hoped."

"Day 3: A child came in crying today, saying a "bad man" took his computer. We felt so bad that we gave him a new one."

"Day 4: Five kids with the same story - a man took their computer. What's going on? We replaced their computers from our limited replacement stock, but we can't keep this up! We've notified the local police, but they don't seem optimistic."

"Day 5: We've had to turn the kids away - we just don't have any more to give out as replacements. We've even started to hear kids saying their parents took their PC and are trying to sell it, or have set up an internet kiosk with it to make some money using Skype. We're still getting reports of dozens of stolen laptops. Today I spotted a vendor selling a couple of the PCs in the market for $30, but by the time I got back with the police he was already gone."

"Day 6: We've got hundreds of kids hanging around, wanting to use the demo laptops we keep here at HQ - it seems all of them have lost their PC one way or another. I spotted three businesses in town using the laptops - but they all claimed to have purchased them from parents, so the police said there was nothing they could do."

"Day 7: We're packing up to leave - nothing more we can do here. Maybe 1 child in 20 still has a working laptop - the rest are broken, stolen, or sold off by their families. The other distribution sites are reporting similar difficulties. We've left our demo systems with the school - maybe they'll be able to hang onto them long enough for the kids to get some value from this fiasco."