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"Many of those likely to use or own the the Aakash Tablet will never have used a desktop computer, and it’s possible they never will."

Not sure why, but I love concepts like this.

Its meant for distribution among poor kids in India's Rural areas.

And those kids don't generally have access to a computer or laptop or any other computing devices in general.

The largest percentage of cell phone users in the world will never have used a landline and never will.

It's a big mistake thinking that every new emerging economy has to go through the same industrialization steps in the same way as the last one.