Thursday, May 30, 2013

Tablets Replace PCs in Dakar Cybercafe

go 730x276 Google replaces computers with tablets in a Senegal cybercaféThe Equinox cybercafe, located in Dakar’s Medina neighborhood, has replaced PCs with 15 tablets. Available at the same price as a regular cybercafe computer session at about $0.60 an hour, the move illustrates the potential role tablets will play in getting computing devices into the hands of users in many developing regions, according to the Google Europe Blog.

Aside from lower capital and probably operating costs for the cybercafe, use of tablets also consumes less electricity. Smart phones will play much the same role.

Now if we can just get the cost of infrastructure down, in a disruptive way. 




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