Quanta to delay OLPC notebook shipments to 4Q07
Quanta Computer's shipments of XO notebooks under the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) project may be delayed, again, to the fourth quarter instead of the third quarter due to a delay in designs of varied application scenarios for different emerging markets, according to an April 20 Chinese-language Commercial Times report.
The delayed OLPC shipments may not only affect Quanta's first-year projected shipments of about 10 million XO notebooks but also the projected revenues of component suppliers.
Recently, I gave the talk OLPC XO: Design Environment for 10 Million New Web Users, and one interesting tangent we discussed was the monetization of OLPC XO user eyeballs.
As can be expected, the first reaction to Google being the start page for 10 million new One Laptop Per Child Internet users (plus their family, so 30-40 million viewers) was something like Danieloso's OLPC + Google equation:
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