Apple’s launch of a smaller, cheaper iPad this week generated a global hullabaloo, but for one Chinese businessman in Brazil, it cannot have seemed quite so extraordinary. Paulo Xu had been there and done that – a year earlier and for half the price – with a 300-reais (£100) tablet computer that has brought the internet into hundreds of thousands of low-income homes for the first time. The technology may have been less advanced, but the simple device showed how new combinations of manufacturing nous and marketing opportunities are changing the face of the electronics industry in emerging economies. (via Brazil’s answer to iPad mini brings internet to hundreds of thousands | Technology | guardian.co.uk)
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