03-27-2013, 03:09 PM | #16 |
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For young children, certainly. Colour, animation, and audio are valuable tools for attracting and maintaining their interest. eInk devices are a more cost effective alternative when it comes to older children, teenagers, and adults. Once a child starts reading chapter books, they are working mostly with text as well as black and white illustrations. Teenagers (and adults) mostly consume texts that lack illustrations, so there is very little reason to purchase an iPad.
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03-28-2013, 01:57 AM | #17 |
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Uh, parents can always refuse to let the kiddies *use* the iPads...but no, they're probably just dumping the kids at the library so the librarians can serve as babysitters as well.
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03-28-2013, 04:48 AM | #18 |
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Maybe I've been lucky, but all of the kids I've seen in libraries have been accompanied by adults or behaved responsibly without supervision. Besides, you'd think that the parents seeking free babysitting would love the iPads since their kids would want to go to and stay at the library.
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And budgets are rarely unlimited, and the spending on iPads means a reduction in book spending. |
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Educational institutions get a $20 discount per iPad when purchased in bundles of 10. See posts further up for links. |
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03-28-2013, 02:21 PM | #25 | |
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(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. |
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Yes, I saw the link. So you conclude from a link for generic apple discounts for education, that this is how much the library in question paid? That's quite a huge leap in logic. Contracts are subject to negotiation and prices vary from contract to contract. For example, I know that one of my co-workers got a bigger discount that than on an Apple computer since his wife is a teacher and gets the discount negotiated by her school district. I reiterate, unless you know the contracted price, you don't know how much the library paid for the iPads. They may have gotten a much better deal, or they could have gotten a lousy deal. |
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Ever since the beginning of the company, Apple has always provided huge discounts for schools because they wanted to get potential customers very early. I can see them doing the same thing for libraries. 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. I would suspect that Apple would definitely undercut prices here because, as I said, they has always been their way of doing things.
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I don't have a beef. Was just pointing out that as time passes things change. Still plenty of old school paper books (at the library) where I live. They have just expanded to include other services as well. Things always change. At one time books were scrolls & there was no Dewey Decimal System to keep things sorted.
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