<p dir="ltr">Amazon assures us they are not in fact a casino, with oscillating prices, oscillating inventory, and oscillating policies, and 86'ing inventory from a country whose code is +86 = China ;-)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Perhaps worse from microdeployments' very practical and pragmatic perspective, looking out over the high walls of Fortress America, Amzn's tablets just don't exist in many countries, so that "local capacity building" CAN become more than a fundraising buzzword One Day.</p>
<p dir="ltr">But yes: fyi Amazon has now almost doubled its tablet price range/target: "$64.99 without special offers", instead of $34.99-for-everyone so very recently.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Braddock's cautions (about deployments having the logistics rug pulled out from under them) apply earlier than we imagined...</p>
<p dir="ltr">Oh for the good old days when OLPC'S microdeployment pricing only oscillated about 10-to-20% of the XO's "China price" (perhaps that's still the case, if OLPC still uses DHL from China). OLPC's microdeployment real/actual pricing (including country-by-country certication, delivery from China, customs brokering) being even more stable in the USA, last I checked anyway.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The future of student devices / clean browsers / consistent Sugar UX remains all too blurry for now ~ might OLPC Australia's "Infinite" hardware (modular laptop, announced for September 2016) possibly reconsider a clean Sugar experience out-of-the-box?</p>