At the end of last week, the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, visited 3 of the most important companies in Silicon Valley: Microsoft, Apple and Google. The Turkish official's visit is based on the intention to purchase 10.6 million tablets within a project called Fatih, with the aim of bringing those tablets into the hands of Turkish pupils and students. During his visit, of course, he had the opportunity to talk with people in key positions in all 3 companies, and in the image above we see him entering the Apple campus in Cupertino.
We wanted to see the latest developments in the information technology sector before we launched the Fatih bid by visiting Silicon Valley because we plan to realize a similar project in Istanbul. Our first goal is to produce 10,600,000 tablets as part of the Fatih project, which will be followed by the production of 2 million to 2.5 million tablets.
An order of 10.6 million tablets would bring billions of dollars to the accounts of any of the 3 companies, but for now it is not known who attracted the attention of the Turkish Prime Minister. To be honest, I think that Microsoft has the least chance of selling tablets to Turkey, and here we must take into account the fact that the company's products had poor sales and are not really in demand. Personally, I think that Apple and Samsung have the best chances of receiving the entire order, or only a part of it, it remains to be seen who will be chosen in the end.
