When we think about even the PC market and what is required in the student as well as in the consumer market, we want to be able to compete in the opening price point.
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For consumers to benefit from technology, there has to be fair and open competition. Fair and open competition is the only course we know that can lead to meaningful innovation.
You need to understand the market, know how you can differentiate yourself in it, and grasp the price and the functional differentiation competitive points that are going to allow you to be disruptive.
When you know who your customers are, that can give you an edge on the competition.
Markets work when people can evaluate the prices and risks of different products, then pick the ones that work best for them. But when the terms of the deal are hidden, competition doesn't work. And customers aren't the only ones who are hurt.
The trick is, a market has to be nonexistent when you start. If the market is large early on, you will have too many competitors. You have to make it large.
Being able to compete for consumers' attention and dollars over the preciousness of access is a thing of the past. Everyone is using the Internet to globally market a product.
Everybody agrees that you want competition. But you have to have rules of fair competition if you want to have competitors to enter the market.
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.
We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.