[kictanet] Taifa Laptop

Thu Aug 25 19:35:32 EAT 2016

I like the passion we are showing with the Taifa laptop.

All we have been advocating here is for our people to be empowered, to have
made in Kenya products. Create employment, reduce foreign trade deficit,
and build the confidence of the nation. While in primary school ... many
decades away ..., the Kofa (we could not afford Oxford) mathematical
geometric set was written Shangai China. And since the Nacet razor blades
and fake flower HB pencils were written "Made in China", I used to think
Shangai was Chinese for "Made in".

I digress. Now that we have a "Shangai Kenya" commercial laptop, I would
expect we start by ululating, than give our suggestions on how the local
products can be improved  to compete with the imports.

There is nothing like perfection. Even VW, the ultimate perfectionists from
Germany faked their car emission levels.

Keep up JKUAT, and continue re-inventing your product. Remember Huawei and
ZTE used to be the products not to buy. Not anymore.

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Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
twitter.com/lordmwesh

On 25 August 2016 at 19:11, manasseh mwangi via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> I understand that after some few months the screen fails
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> First Safaricom. Then KQ. Now JKUAT.
>>
>> Seems diversification of business is an official trend :D
>>
>> On 25 Aug 2016 4:10 p.m., "Odhiambo Washington via kictanet" <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> I hear the "special software" is MS Office Students Edition. How that is
>>> perceived to be better than the FOSS versions beats me. Given that MS
>>> Office is a MS Windows-based suite, it therefore means Taifa Laptop runs
>>> some version of Windows.
>>> I believe the students can get very good hardware for that price and run
>>> FOSS software on them (something like Edubuntu) and that will be much more
>>> value for money than Taifa. But perhaps KU wants their ROI from the
>>> assembly plant and what other way to get that than force their product down
>>> the throat of the students?
>>>
>>> On 25 August 2016 at 16:04, waudo siganga via kictanet <
>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The "special software" narrative just sounds rhetorical. What is so
>>>> special about a software that it can only run on a particular type of
>>>> laptop? What OS are they using?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016, at 03:10 PM, Gakiria via kictanet wrote:
>>>>
>>>> All i know is that parents are being forced to buy Taifa Laptop because
>>>> it has "special software" designed to assist students in their learning
>>>> process....
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Musya Michael via kictanet <
>>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Anyone using this laptop? Experiences so far?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/08/22/parents-protest-jk
>>>> uats-imposition-of-taifa-laptops-on-students_c1407693
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Michael Musya.
>>>>
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