[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [b2g] Introducing B2G to x86

[Christian Stroetmann]

Hello Paul

You wrote:
> james wrote:
>   >  On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:55:36AM +0100, Christian Stroetmann wrote:
>   >  >  For sure, there is the One Tablet Per Child (OTPC) respectively One
>   >  >  Pad Per Child (OPPC) project by my business division intellitablet
>   >  >  since July 2012 (see [1]).
>   >  >  You are contracted by OLPC? So, please could you take a look and
>   >  >  tell me when the OLPC announced their tablet computer.
>   >
>   >  No, I do not have access to those records.
>   >
>   >  Relying only on public record, http://blog.laptop.org/ the multi-child
>   >  XO Tablet manufactured by Vivitar and OLPC was announced as available
>   >  for retail sale at Walmart.com on July 16 2013.  There was an
>   >  announcement before that on January 9 2013 associated with CES.
>   >
>   >  I don't see how this is relevant to sugar-devel@ mailing list.
>   >
>   >  >  [1] intelliTablet Announcement One Tablet Per Child (OTPC) and One
>   >  >  Pad Per Child (OPPC/OP²C) #1
>   >  >  www.ontomax.com/newsarchive/2012/july.htm#17.July.2012
>
> from the pictures at that link, it seems to be related to the XO-3,
> which, while under developmentd for a very long time, was never
> released, nor produced in more than prototype quantities.  and, it was a
> very different beast than the "XO Tablet" produced by vivitar.  (i
> know that james knows this -- i'm just clarifying for others.)
>
> paul
>
>
> =---------------------
>   paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
>
Thank you for your clarification.
Indeed, the One Tablet Per Child project was started by intelliTablet, 
because the XO-3 never came to market.

But form my point of view the chronology has some more facts to list:
1. The OLPC developed the concept and a design study of the XO-2 in 2008.
2. I showed a picture of the XO-1Beta of the year 2005 on one of my 
websites [1]. Because I thought the XO-1 is already a convertible laptop 
respectively tablet laptop (see also [2]) that features a touchscreen, 
due to the reason that I confused touch pad with touchscreen, I 
described the XO-1 as "Tablet Computer Convertible One Laptop per Child 
(OLPC) XO-1" (move the mouse on the image to see the description).
3. The OLPC developed the concept and prototypes of the XO-3 and 
presented it on the CES in January 2012 for example.
4. Because the OLPC presented the XO-2 and the XO-3, but no direct 
successor of the XO-1, my business division intelliTablet came back to 
my concept of the convertible tablet computer variant of the XO-1 (see 
again point 2.) and presented it on the 17th of July 2012 and 19th of 
July 2012 ([3] and [4]). The device should be an integration of the XO-1 
and the XO-3, or said in other words, an XO-1 with a (multi-)touchscreen.
5. 8 days later the OLPC presented the XO-4 Touch in a press release.
6. Wikipedia describes the XO-4 in the following way [5]: "The XO 4 is a 
refresh of the XO 1 to 1.75 with a later ARM CPU and an optional touch 
screen."
7. Due to these points, I claimed in my first e-mail to this thread that 
"The One Tablet Per Child (OTPC) project is very well known by the OLPC 
headquarter as the XO-1 with touchscreen is."

Maybe, some details are not correct.



Have fun
Christian Stroetmann

[1] Original vs. 
Inspirationwww.ontomax.com/newsarchive/2010/january.htm#07.January.2010
[2] Wikipedia Laptop, subsection Convertible laptop 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertible_laptop#Convertible_laptop
[3] intelliTablet Announcement One Tablet Per Child (OTPC) and One Pad 
Per Child (OPPC/OP²C) #1 
www.ontomax.com/newsarchive/2012/july.htm#17.July.2012
[4] intelliTablet Announcement One Tablet Per Child (OTPC) and One Pad 
Per Child (OPPC/OP²C) #2 
www.ontomax.com/newsarchive/2012/july.htm#19.July.2012
[5] Wikipedia OLPC XO-1, XO 4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XO_laptop