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Originally Posted by jersysman
Ever since the beginning of the company, Apple has always provided huge discounts for schools because they wanted to get potential customers very early.
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That practice pretty much ended a decade ago. Teachers and students no longer receive discounts. (They tend to bundle products these days.) The discounts for institutional purchases weren't very impressive either.
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Because Android is a huge conglomerate of different companies, it is hard for a government entity to deal with them all. One cannot judge the price paid in something like this by the retail price.
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Governments only have to deal with a subset of those companies, and they would usually do so through a bidding process. Companies are typically told what the requirements are prior to tendering a bid, so they can offer a product with suitable specifications in order to make a competitive bid. Apple's product line is simply too limited to make a competitive bid unless the requirements were biased towards Apple in the first place.