They weren't interested in individual sales at all, but they would sell into the US the same as anywhere else: to public education bodies.
It was envisioned as a system-of-education project with technology as a key enabler, not a consumer technology project.
> Chromebooks and cellphones hit the price point now, and don't require an NGO.
The point of the NGO wasn't the price point, though keeping g the price down was one important requirement.
Yeah, not so much. I never could get a response out of them for a tribal college with plenty of students and a young children's program. They really had their preferred people and just wouldn't talk to anyone else.