Comments on: Intel Plans Atom-Based Rs.5000 Desktop. Good For India http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/01/intel-plans-atom-based-rs5000-desktop-good-for-india/ The Refreshing Blog on Web, Advertising and Technology in India! Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:47:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tushar http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/01/intel-plans-atom-based-rs5000-desktop-good-for-india/#comment-11189 Tushar Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:41:09 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=4888#comment-11189 I would say this one is very much useful for rural india of course we need internet but to use internet there is one pre requisite and i.e. every one should aware of how computer operates and there we are I would say this one is very much useful for rural india of course we need internet but to use internet there is one pre requisite and i.e. every one should aware of how computer operates and there we are

]]> By: Samir Shah http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/01/intel-plans-atom-based-rs5000-desktop-good-for-india/#comment-10565 Samir Shah Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:43:35 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=4888#comment-10565 Ankit, do not think like a Yuppie (Young Urban Professional) for whom a villager is a trickle down person. A villager is not buying a computer, he is buying a solution. The solutions are now Internet based. Travel, Indian Railways site, Internet. Carrier of his son, naukri.com, Internet. Weather for his fields, Internet. Marriage for his daughter, shaadi.com, Internet. I say Internet is necessary. I say Internet is necessary and computer is not. A mobile can also give you Internet. Also here goes Yuppie thinking, if they do not have bread, let them eat cake. User is buying a solution and not a computer. He is not interested in another transaction for modem. He wants the solution built-in for a single price transaction. For him Rs.5000 is a fortune. Ankit, do not think like a Yuppie (Young Urban Professional) for whom a villager is a trickle down person.

A villager is not buying a computer, he is buying a solution. The solutions are now Internet based. Travel, Indian Railways site, Internet. Carrier of his son, naukri.com, Internet. Weather for his fields, Internet. Marriage for his daughter, shaadi.com, Internet.

I say Internet is necessary. I say Internet is necessary and computer is not. A mobile can also give you Internet.

Also here goes Yuppie thinking, if they do not have bread, let them eat cake. User is buying a solution and not a computer. He is not interested in another transaction for modem. He wants the solution built-in for a single price transaction. For him Rs.5000 is a fortune.

]]> By: Ankit Saxena http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/01/intel-plans-atom-based-rs5000-desktop-good-for-india/#comment-10553 Ankit Saxena Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:49:23 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=4888#comment-10553 @Sameer "<i>computer is a stone and nobody will buy it</i>" I disagree. A computer is a useful tool. Agreed, the Internet makes it so much more useful, but a computer still is a useful device. And when there are thousands of computers being used in rural India already, I do not see why anyone would not take a computer, when offered for Rs.5000. Yes, Internet is important, but is it necessary? I don't think so. Bundling a CDMA modem doesn't makes much sense. Once the computer is there, let the user select which network provider would they want to go with. Reliance, Tata, MTNL, or a plethora of <a href="http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/01/shyam-tele-goes-pan-india-gets-spectrum-for-all-india-roll-out/" rel="nofollow">new entrants</a> @Sameer
“computer is a stone and nobody will buy it”

I disagree. A computer is a useful tool. Agreed, the Internet makes it so much more useful, but a computer still is a useful device. And when there are thousands of computers being used in rural India already, I do not see why anyone would not take a computer, when offered for Rs.5000.

Yes, Internet is important, but is it necessary? I don’t think so.

Bundling a CDMA modem doesn’t makes much sense. Once the computer is there, let the user select which network provider would they want to go with. Reliance, Tata, MTNL, or a plethora of new entrants

]]> By: Samir Shah http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/01/intel-plans-atom-based-rs5000-desktop-good-for-india/#comment-10549 Samir Shah Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:48:39 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=4888#comment-10549 Ankit, what I wanted to say is, without a good, solid and built-in way to access Internet the computer is a stone and nobody will buy it, even if, the rhetoric goes, it is free. Intel should have a CDMA 1xRTT modem (Reliance, Tata or Shyam) built-in. Wireline Internet will never be cheap or commoditiozed in India. It is a curse on India. India's answer is wireless. I will gladly give buit-in Ethernet for 1xRTT modem for Rs. 5000 computer. I believe we are moving from computing first and communications second world to communications first and computing second world. There is a lesson here for both India and Intel. Ankit, what I wanted to say is, without a good, solid and built-in way to access Internet the computer is a stone and nobody will buy it, even if, the rhetoric goes, it is free. Intel should have a CDMA 1xRTT modem (Reliance, Tata or Shyam) built-in.

Wireline Internet will never be cheap or commoditiozed in India. It is a curse on India. India’s answer is wireless. I will gladly give buit-in Ethernet for 1xRTT modem for Rs. 5000 computer.

I believe we are moving from computing first and communications second world to communications first and computing second world. There is a lesson here for both India and Intel.

]]> By: Ankit Saxena http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/01/intel-plans-atom-based-rs5000-desktop-good-for-india/#comment-10541 Ankit Saxena Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:55:15 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=4888#comment-10541 @Sameer Thanks for commenting, Sameer. Agreed, Internet is an important resource. But we all agree that sooner or later, Internet will be commoditized. It will be cheap then. Cheap enough for an average villager to afford it. Availability of Internet is one thing, but you do need devices to access it on, right? Internet is services, it can be offered at a much cheaper level, if the volumes are met. Providing desktop at Rs.5000 can have that multiplier effect where the volumes shoot up considerably. Needles to say, the demand for the Internet will shoot up, accordingly. At this point we will see the influx of affordable Internet services in India. Thanks for visiting us. Please keep coming back for more. @Sameer
Thanks for commenting, Sameer.
Agreed, Internet is an important resource. But we all agree that sooner or later, Internet will be commoditized. It will be cheap then. Cheap enough for an average villager to afford it.

Availability of Internet is one thing, but you do need devices to access it on, right?

Internet is services, it can be offered at a much cheaper level, if the volumes are met. Providing desktop at Rs.5000 can have that multiplier effect where the volumes shoot up considerably. Needles to say, the demand for the Internet will shoot up, accordingly. At this point we will see the influx of affordable Internet services in India.

Thanks for visiting us. Please keep coming back for more.

]]> By: Samir Shah http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/01/intel-plans-atom-based-rs5000-desktop-good-for-india/#comment-10540 Samir Shah Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:33:28 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=4888#comment-10540 For a villager important things are the weather, bus tickets and train tickets and for that Internet is must. For a villager important things are the weather, bus tickets and train tickets and for that Internet is must.

]]> By: Samir Shah http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/01/intel-plans-atom-based-rs5000-desktop-good-for-india/#comment-10538 Samir Shah Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:32:50 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=4888#comment-10538 The move is surely welcome but a computer without Internet is like a stone which has limited uses. The move is surely welcome but a computer without Internet is like a stone which has limited uses.

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