The One Laptop Per Child project may have turned down Apple’s offer of free Mac OS X for each machine in favour of making their own XO interface, but they’re not averse to aping the way the Cupertino gang work. At least according to John Maeda, one of the grand poobahs at MIT who has been keeping an eye on the XO development process. “They’re using the Steve Jobs method,” says, John Maeda, an MIT design guru, “you don’t use focus groups. You just do it right.” Incidentally, the $100 laptop is now going for about $208 – that was the price when they did a deal with the Libyan authority (sic) back in October.
The Face Of The $100 Laptop [Business Week]
