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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Android provides a very good app set for children at a fraction of the cost. In these days of limited budgets, libraries need to think hamburger helper and forget the filet mignon.
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And given the growth of the Android market, we should expect to see the quantity and quality of those apps improve at a pace faster than iOS apps. Just look at Apple products in the 1980's and 1990's: the best educational software targeted the Apple II and then the Macintosh. By 2000, you were far better off using Windows or sticking with legacy Apple products. The same thing is bound to happen again. Spending twice as much for hardware that can do the same things(1), and offers relatively poor support for institutional deployments, simply does not make sense.
(1) By do the same things, I mean in terms of software capabilities and performance. I'm perfectly aware that the price difference between an iPad and an Android of similar performance is going to be far smaller. On the other hand, there are many usage cases that don't need the hardware as capable as an iPad or Android of similar performance.