<div dir="ltr">Hi Tony<div><br></div><div>Don't get me wrong, what I am excited about is being able to buy up Amazon's subsidised hardware and rip out their Android distro and put in a clean one. I'm not sure about putting in a GNU/Linux, a clean Android/Linux distro seems more likely to go smoothly. </div><div><br></div><div>As I understood them, there were some GSOC proposals for making Sugarizer into an Android shell, that would be make this strategy even more viable. </div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 April 2016 at 23:46, Tony Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Actually not. The problem is that I really believe the deployed
system needs to be free, meaning the deployment needs to pay no
subscription fees or royalties to continue to use the device.
Microsoft (and other vendors) suffer from the buy once model. All of
them are trying to find a way to get a stable revenue stream as the
telecoms do. Technically, the 'cloud' is a sham. There is no way to
provide a computer which is 50 times faster than the one in your
hand. So having users execute code on a server is a non-starter.
HTML is ok because the work is done on the client. Cloud storage is
ok because the server action is as a file server, low processor
overhead. Formatting Word documents on a server is not economical -
unless that is your source of revenue.<br>
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Durability yes, but the price premium is 2x. There will (and
probably are) a plethora of 'head start' computers with such
packages. However, with Sugar and a school server, we already put
them to shame.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Tony</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 04/07/2016 11:24 AM, Dave Crossland
wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 6 April 2016 at 20:49, Tony
Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Our need is a
deployable device - one that can be purchased in
quantities of 30+. <br>
If we develop a technique to install Sugar on such a
device, that can be done for all of them at <br>
the time of deployment. So, if anyone can find a
suitable tablet with a manageable price (less than $100)<br>
and can install Sugar on it from a usb drive - it would
be a boon.<br>
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<div>:D</div>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Sora Edwards-Thro
is planning a deployment with the $50 Kindle Fire (an
Android derivative). Her intent <br>
is to use Sugarizer. I would recommend adding the
GCompris Android version. What she really needs is <br>
a Sugarized version of the WriteBook activity. So far,
no one has stepped up to take that on. Naturally, the
strategic <br>
interest is how well the Kindle supports learning.</div>
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<div>Fascinating!</div>
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I see <a href="http://gizmodo.com/amazons-50-fire-tablet-is-the-impulse-buy-that-never-e-1731275123" target="_blank">http://gizmodo.com/amazons-50-fire-tablet-is-the-impulse-buy-that-never-e-1731275123</a>
from 2015-09-17:<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">If what you’re really looking for
is durability, though, the $100 Fire Kids Edition is the
one you probably want. Big, lifeproof rubber bumper, a
2-year no-questions-asked replacement policy, a
kid-friendly web browser you can turn off or add
whitelisted sites to, and 10,000 pre-approved titles for
junior to safely watch.</div>
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