Low-Cost Indian Tablet Project Falls To Corruption

symbolset writes "The first Aakash tablet proposed for India schools has failed. Datawind managed to deliver the $45 Android tablet as reported here previously, but suffering a breach in faith by both their contract manufacturer and the accepting agency in India had to put the project on hold. Facing a loss in revenue it's turning into a disaster for the small Canadian company as they are now proving unable to deliver both the Aakash tablet and the parallel retail product. Senior executives have begun to flee. The company has presold a great many tablets, and delivery failure reports are beginning to mount. Is this the Phantom console of this decade?"

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another reason to stop outsourcing to india

[Anonymous Coward]

if they can't get their own projects right, why pay them to do ours?

there's rampant overcharging. sure it's half the cost per developer, but you need 6-20 times more developers to get the same work done. not to mention the cost of having your managers telling them what to do in great detail.

i personally stand with ceo's over union workers, but how can the ceos be so stupid as to outsource IT?

Re:Barely legible summary

[Celarent Darii]

To save on costs ot seems Slashdot has outsourced all editing to India.