[Cialug] Fwd: ARM Ubuntu netbook

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

>
> 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?
>
> Also, who is the market? W/out parental controls it's not going to be
> powering Mickey Mouse netbooks.
>
> 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.


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.

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Matthew Nuzum
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