Hello Stefan, Sunday, January 27, 2008, 1:14:46 AM, you wrote:
But historically, computers have been available at all kinds of price ranges, so people chose the price point that fit them. So, for the last 15 years or so already computers have been chosen (in the wealthy countries) to be cheaper than programmers.
Is there any reason to think that the same forces aren't at play in lower-income nations? After all, cheap (typically second hand) computers are easy to come by.
what you mean by cheap computer? one which can't run modern software at all, smth like first IBM PC? :) in poor countries there is not just second-hand computers because local sources doesn't exist (in order to have 100k of second-hand computers people should buy the same 100k new computers a few years ago), and global import of second-hand computers is non-existant -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com