NO THANK YOU! I would buy my kid his own device.
whoever hands a kid a computer has control over what is in that computer...and that is not a good thing, at least if you’re a parent.
Don't bet too much, it's hardly the evil spying item you envisage.
This is what they get...
I think it's a great idea to encourage kids to do actual programming as opposed to simply playing computer games. Also interesting for ARM since their company spun off from the staff at Acorn Computers in the UK, which made the BBC Micro computer around 1981 -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
Also highy inter-twined with Apple. Wiki again -
Apple and Acorn began to collaborate on developing the ARM, and it was decided that this would be best achieved by a separate company. The bulk of the Advanced Research and Development section of Acorn that had developed the ARM CPU formed the basis of ARM Ltd when that company was spun off in November 1990. Acorn Group and Apple Computer Inc each had a 43% shareholding in ARM (in 1996), while VLSI was an investor and first ARM licensee