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The Hindu newspaper story on appliance sales

The soaring population that make more than $10 per day are of course a huge new market segment for cars like the $2500 Tata just announced; and this newspaper story in India is about the sales of side-by-side frost-free refrigerator and microwave sales climbing by 50% last year. These people don't need the XO laptop; they can buy the same $500 and up computers for their kids that we do...factory-floor direct if they work there.

© Roy Brander, P.Eng 2008