OLPC head slams 'Aakash dream' in a no holds barred interview

Surely it seems that it'll take a lot more for the Aakash tablet to hold its ground in the Indian market, than just distressing rumours and bad feedback; maybe even sharp words will come its way. And it did. In an interview with the Economic Times, Head of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, Satish Jha most definitely made the makers of the Aakash tablet shift uncomfortably in their seats. Jha, in his no-holds barred interview with the publication slammed the Aakash tablet, calling it a 'pre-beta technology', among other things. If that wasn't enough, he even went on to add that the Aakash tablet was incompetent to fully address the education needs of the students in the country. Without mincing words, he stated, "China has refined the craft of manufacturing into its second nature, making the nation, the electronics factory of the world. Then, how would India make the "lowest cost" computer in a tablet form? It has never been known for creating computing technologies. It even does not manufacture microprocessors. It does not have the scale. So what magic will help her realise the dream that has it so energised?"

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