Aakash Tablet Production Lags by 2 Million Units

Aakash Tablet Production Lags by 2 Million Units

Jan 10, 2012

CANDLE IN THE WIND: Updates on the ongoing saga of Datawind, maker of the Aakash tablet, which now has a backlog of over 2 million units--twenty times their initial projection of 100,000 sales for this year--courtesy of the Wall Street Journal. Don't miss the keen insights from CEO Suneet Tuli on the cost-driven priorities and preferences behind the India's consumer Internet market, where price remains a overriding factor. Quite a different story than the latest on the death knell of CrunchPad project, whose maker Fusion Garage, embroiled in lawsuits with Michael Arrington, has finally gone into liquidation, reports SlashGear.

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