<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Matthew Nuzum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>My question is will this be a consumer item that anyone can buy at the store or is it going to be bundled with a service agreement and a data plan?<br>
<br>Also, who is the market? W/out parental controls it's not going to be powering Mickey Mouse netbooks.<br><br>Furthermore, what's the profit margin going to be? There's got to be some way to make money off this or it won't work.</blockquote>
</div><br clear="all">Ah, just got kind of a confirmation. Based on reports from colleagues in Italy and the UK, the standard model being adopted by many of these vendors is a free netbook w/ a subscription to a mobile data plan.<br>
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