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Originally Posted by leebase
It does as lack of educational app ecosystem is a hold back for cheap tablets. And price is a hold back for the iPad and windows/Mac PC's. The surface is expensive, and not particularly durable. And on top of that, not a great tablet,
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I disagree with you on the quality of the Surface.
But I think you're making the mistake of confusing consumer commercial experience with tablets in schools. The two wouldn't be the same at all.
Nothing is stopping MS, Apple or Google from tuning their OSes to meet educational needs and developing platforms for them.
If the software developed for any of the OSes is good enough, than any would work well for schools.
Funny thing: We're quibbling on this when overall I agree with your main point: color eInk is not desperately needed for educational purposes. A tablet or laptop would be far more useful. Google's had a lot of success with their Chromebooks in schools.