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Apple Teams Up With the University of Nevada, Reno to Give Every Freshman a Free iPad Air
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Sorry, bro. You'll never earn any forum cred saying something positive about what Apple does. Work harder on the eye-roll and sarcasm, it's a race to the bottom after all.
I’m sure pretty it’s free to the students from the university, not from Apple. I imagine the university paid Apple allot of money for these
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It doesn’t say Apple donated anything. I think the University purchased the items and gave them away free to the students who will end up paying for it anyway through their tuition fees.
Lol, anyone who thinks Apple is giving these away for free has lost it. Matter of fact, they are likely only getting a $10-$20 per unit cost savings over standard EDU price, if anything at all. Apple quit discounting bulk purchases for EDU institutions several years ago.
Those saying the students are paying for it are dead correct.
-someone who works directly in higher ed with the Apple EDU team/supply chain, and has helped facilitate many of these "deals" at a large public institution over the last 15 years.
This is a great bit of Marketing by Apple and UNR.
Those saying the students are paying for it are dead correct.
-someone who works directly in higher ed with the Apple EDU team/supply chain, and has helped facilitate many of these "deals" at a large public institution over the last 15 years.
This is a great bit of Marketing by Apple and UNR.
The bright side of that is that higher education is available to EVERYONE without emerging with eye watering debt
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Have Apple sanctioned the term ‘Freshman’, or is this just macrumors’ doing? It’s so decidedly male-specific and SO offensively binary!!! Come on - it’s like 2021! Why would Apple or macrumors for that matter, be party to such divisive, gendered language?!
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I’m starting some learning soon and I’ll be using my recently purchased iPad and Apple Pencil. Looking forward to it and how it’ll compare to the traditional methods I’ve used in the past. I had to buy mine myself though 😂
Have Apple sanctioned the term ‘Freshman’, or is this just macrumors’ doing? It’s so decidedly male-specific and SO offensively binary!!! Come on - it’s like 2021! Why would Apple or macrumors for that matter, be party to such divisive, gendered language?!
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I’m starting some learning soon and I’ll be using my recently purchased iPad and Apple Pencil. Looking forward to it and how it’ll compare to the traditional methods I’ve used in the past. I had to buy mine myself though 😂
They did have Apple U as part of iTunes which launched in 2007 offering free online materials and lectures from some of the top universities. Sadly Apple ran it down and it’s due to close this year.
Alternatively they do have an Apple University. Located in Cupertino it’s essentially a staff training facility.
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I had no idea it was so expensive for going to college until I read this thread. No wonder Steve Jobs and Bill Gates dropped out. Too expensive!
the road to hell is paved with good intentions and other people’s money.
see: LAUSD ipad program, et al.
I initially misread that as MacBook Air program, and I thought, "That's an interesting major!"
I'm assuming that the university got a bulk purchase discount or educational pricing.
It's $8k/semester so we're talking $64k over 4 years. It's overpriced because the cost of schooling has consistently risen at over twice the rate of inflation and far exceeds the price of higher education in every other developed nation by quite a bit. We're talking $16k/year at this school (which is considered cheap here in the states) and most other developed nations charge nothing or a few thousand at most per year.
And this is just when comparing against a school considered cheap here. The average debt that a medical student now has leaving college here in the US is over $200k! One-fifth of a million dollars on average! Absolutely insane.
Amazing. Apple gives a free iPad and people here have the audacity to slam Apple about it. I'm certain it's not about tuition fees. It's just plain jealousy.
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Stanford charges no tuition, room/board and/or fees for anyone whose family makes less than $75,000 a year and no tuition or fees for anyone whose family makes less than $150,000.
Other top schools have similar programs.
Oops, $64K, but still cheap for something you keep your entire life. UCLA or UCB will be around $128K, still worth it. And the US has the best universities in the world, so idc how it is elsewhere.
Medical school is a different beast, and I have many complaints about that from having family members going through it, which have more to do with the deliberate barriers to entry that lead to the higher cost of education and overall difficulty. It's like a hazing ritual from end of high school until halfway through residency. That's an actual mess. People in my family without sufficient health insurance have flown to other countries to have expensive procedures done and paid out of pocket, and it's still cheaper.
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If it works out, then why all the complaints about crushing student loan debt and sky-high tuition?
Pretty terrible outcome for everybody when tuition skyrockets through the roof because of government interference in loans. I fail to see how that's good for anyone except the schools. The current system screws everyone else.
US is up there with other top unis around the world. There are a few from the UK, and a few other places around the world in the top 20. The US is still the most expensive.
Say we use the top non US uni, uni of Oxford in the UK. For UK/ RoI citizens it’s £9000 a year (~US$12,000). For a 3 year degree it’s $36,000. Can get a top education for half the price of a comparable uni in the USA. And that comes with a free, low interest Loan (3%+ interest) from the government paid based on your income not based on what you owe
My daughter attended the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and her tuition was C$46,000 a year — US$38,000. I paid cash. What a bargain.