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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
There are millions and millions of people learning from printed text and graphics, surely someone could see the impact a slight direction of intent could have? Or are the ways of education so "unshiftive" and impregnable?
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No, there's a market that is likely to be served at some point. It just isn't a
big enough market for Apple to be interested.
The current market is probably measurable in tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of units, depending on the device and the price.
Apple wants a market of
millions of devices. If they can't get iPod/iPhone numbers, they won't bite.
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I believe one has to learn to write with one's hand, granted, but past that the sky's the limit. Distributing electronic formated material is quicker and would accelerate the amount of learning. Sometimes I feel that teachers are so unevolutive...
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Lots of material can be
distributed in electronic form, if all you need to do is
read it. If you need to make changes to it, it's a different story.
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If anyone remembers Next computers, I'm pretty sure that's the moment where Jobs got the brushoff from scolars and since then forfeited doing more for education.
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The NeXT machine was over-priced and poorly executed for the intended market. No surprise it failed. It was aimed at grad students, who couldn't afford it, and universities weren't interested in picking up the tab.
The NeXT OS and development environment had potential, if it had ever been released for anything besides Apple gear.
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There are other around with creative spirit and vision enough to tackle the task. For now I only feel aPple could be up to the task. Anyone has an idea of who then could be ambitious enough to turn the tables?
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Apple could be, but isn't interested. Not enough money in it. I'm not sure off hand who I'd point at instead.
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Dennis