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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
Honestly, it has absolutely nothing to do with what teachers, students, or parents want, it's to do with what the district can afford
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Precisely for this reason, I'm afraid more and more schools might switch over to the Android ecosystem. If a school can buy 2 or even 3 brand-new Android tablets with better hardware specs for the overblown price of 1 outdated iPad, it's likely they will do so.
I can already see the first signs of this starting to happen here in Europe: some new educational (particularly non-English-speaking) apps are only available for the Android platform, but not for iOS. Which is one reason why I bought the new Nexus 7: I don't wish to miss out on those apps.
It really looks to me that, by overpricing their products so horrendously, Apple may be, once again, moving down the same road they did with Mac OS versus Windows in the 1990s. And we know how
that ended.
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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
it's not like we're talking about a 2003 machine, it's from 2011!
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3 years are an
eternity in the world of tablets.
Especially, offering the ludicrously inferior 1024 * 768 pixels resolution on a 10-inch screen in 2013-4, at the full 2012 price, defies belief. Such a screen resolution (132 ppi???)
is really something that would likely even make a Chinese knock-off manufacturer shiver to the bone.
I'm not saying: if an outdated tablet like iPad 2 were offered to schools at steep, bulk discounts -- that would be different. But all this condescending talk about the "education sector" are only hypotheses at this point. There was no mention of that in Apple's keynote. The outdated and overpriced iPad 2 was, with a straight face, offered as a legitimate item in the most recent line-up of iPads for the upcoming holiday season.
