The ‘Mi Primer PC Pero de Verdad’ campaign DOES NOT kill (and it wasn’t a goal neither) the original Mi Primer PC program as stated. In fact, they sold over 41 million dolars.

At the same time, the MPPCDV campaign INDEED DOES present a superior alternative to MPPC, although it wasn’t one of its initial goals neither. The alternative – called Nuestro PC – not only had nation wide sales, but was the first time in Chile that the consumers join corporations to create a low-cost computer.

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1. “It succeeded in killing the original Mi Primer PC program, but was unable to replace it with anything better.” That is not true. “Mi primer PC” is now working as “Mi PC” (My Computer) and is releasing new models at low prices. And the “My First Computer… but for real!” finishes with an alternative called “Nuestro PC” (Our Computer), that initially gives a full featured machine, with open source software, even cheaper than “My Computer”.

2. Based on the previous point, “My First Computer… but for real!” didn’t have the original intention of “kill” “My Computer” or give an alternative to it. But the bloggers though that was necessary to give “solutions” based on the original campaign. And the use of propietary software was only the first point on the discussion.

Finally, “My Computer” initiative, in my particular point of view, far as be an initiative to close the digital breach, was a business between Microsoft, Intel and the chilean department stores to give them the chance of sell products that was impossible to sell on the professional’s market, such as Celeron processors and Windows Starter Edition, with a 6 months warranty.

If you can go to a chilean department store, you can see what the sellers think about “My First Computer”.