An Idea for the Apple Tablet

Following the example of the OLPC program, Apple should donate one iTablet (or whatever it is to be named) to qualifying elementary, middle and high schools for each consumer purchased iTablet.

The effect of doing so underscores the iTablet’s disruptive educational innovation, bringing Wikipedia and Web to the fingertips of tiny hands, and creates a moral imperative to overlook the cost premium by consumers vis-a-vis substitutes.

The Tablet isn’t (thankfully) a computer or a phone; the Tablet is the bridge across the digital divide that is as much generational as economic. Apple would be well served to market it as such.