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Apple's 'Education Announcement' Scheduled for January 19 in New York City

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thenerdal said:
Amazing Iceman said:
You are correct. The iPad becomes almost unreadable under direct sunlight, but aren't we always being advised to avoid spending too much time outside to avoid the risk of skin cancer???
Reading a book under the Sun for extended periods of time wouldn't be a smart thing to do, right?
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You don't get skin cancer for spending too much time outside. :confused::confused::confused:
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Go live in New Zealand with no ozone and spend alot of time outside and see how you go. In the middle of summer you can get burn times of 6-8 minutes.
 
Amazing Iceman said:
If it doesn't break, it will be dropped more often. Still, something has to break.
Watching a video on eInk is definitely not a battery-friendly task, but unless you live in the middle of nowhere or in the jungle or at some place with no electricity, there's no need to worry about. You will need lots of light to be able to read eInk at night and do homework, and that will take a lot of power!

If you are so worried about breaking the iPad or any other tablet, maybe you should consider a good protective case, like the one featured at this link:

http://www.space.com/14172-ipad-survives-fall-edge-space-video.html

Now... what do you prefer??
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It won't break if it's flexible. Drop something flexible on the ground multiple times and I guarantee you that it won't break.

Watching a video on eink is battery friendly because eink uses a lot less power.

No one does reads textbooks in the dark.

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Amazing Iceman said:
Depending on where you live, spending too much time under the Sun or on a sunny day would expose you to too much UV radiation, which could cause skin cancer.

http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/Cancer...n-cancer-prevention-and-early-detection-intro

http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/Cancer...prevention-and-early-detection-u-v-protection
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Just wear sunscreen. :confused: I doubt you'll get skin cancer if you're outside for an hour or so.
 
Detrius said:
What world do you live in?

Reference the entire line of LC Macs and add the eMac. It may have been a while since they last did it, but it's very Apple-ish to release products only centered on education.
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I had honestly forgotten about eMacs, since they pretty much didn't exist over here. I do stand corrected.
 
From the NY Times:

The event will showcase a new push by Apple into the digital textbook business, but will not feature any new devices, according to a person briefed on the event who did not want to be identified talking about it before it occurs.
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Link
 
Heilage said:
I'm curious as to what this pertains to. Maybe an iOS for education-centered event of some sort?

It seems un-Apple-ish to release products only centered on education, though.
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Detrius said:
What world do you live in?

Reference the entire line of LC Macs and add the eMac. It may have been a while since they last did it, but it's very Apple-ish to release products only centered on education.
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The LC Macs and eMac (as the original CRT iMac) were originally sold to the general public. At some point, Apple restricted availability of these older product designs to the education channel, but didn't create these products specifically for the education market.

Toward the end of a well-received product's manufacturing cycle, COGS is pretty low due to cheaper components and manufacturing process efficiencies. Apple could lower the price to educational institutions for volume sales and still maintain decent margins.

The white polycarbonate MacBook is now an education-only product. While this definitely debuted and enjoyed many years as a consumer product, Apple restricted sales last year to the institutional educational channel. It's still for sale, but the individual student or teacher can't buy them, you have to be a school district, university IT department, etc.

In any case, the announcement on the 19th is more likely to be about some sort of software or service offering, or maybe a pricing program for educational content creators. It is not likely to be a hardware-focused announcement.
 
A special iCloud for education would be very big - accounts that are tailored to younger children with all the appropriate legal protections, etc.

Software that uses those accounts would be fantastic.
 
JPark said:
You mean the kids carrying 30lb backpacks home from middle school, often using one should strap?
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You mean, those same kids that occasionally get mugged or jumped for their cell phones?

Makes me wonder how many iPads would be stolen if this kind of thing comes to light.
 
JPark said:
I have a hard time seeing the NY skyline without thinking of 9/11. Maybe not the best marketing move by Apple.
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We'll make sure Apple consults you next time in regards to their marketing moves.
 
cvaldes said:
The LC Macs and eMac (as the original CRT iMac) were originally sold to the general public. At some point, Apple restricted availability of these older product designs to the education channel, but didn't create these products specifically for the education market.

Toward the end of a well-received product's manufacturing cycle, COGS is pretty low due to cheaper components and manufacturing process efficiencies. Apple could lower the price to educational institutions for volume sales and still maintain decent margins.

The white polycarbonate MacBook is now an education-only product. While this definitely debuted and enjoyed many years as a consumer product, Apple restricted sales last year to the institutional educational channel. It's still for sale, but the individual student or teacher can't buy them, you have to be a school district, university IT department, etc.
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The eMac (e for education) was introduced as an educational model only and then expanded to retail as consumers demanded it.
 
L-U-R-C-H said:
I really hope they announce the iPhone 5 at this event!

:cool:
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I'm sure you're joking, right? That's about the dumbest thing they could possibly do.

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soco said:
I know this is really random and off-topic, but do you know that Apple was named Apple because it was Steve Jobs' favorite fruit, or is your sig just for the sake of the tongue-in-cheek joke?
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Apple comes before Atari in an alphabetical list.
 
It's about time

It's about time someone like Apple is putting these textbook publishing mafia out of business.

Publishers and greedy professors update 2% of their text and force students and parents to buy "updated" books at hundreds of dollar each textbook. What scums :mad:
 
Will do good said:
It's about time someone like Apple is putting these textbook publishing mafia out of business.

Publishers and greedy professors update 2% of their text and force students and parents to buy "updated" books at hundreds of dollar each textbook. What scums :mad:
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I think publishers are still going to provide etextbooks. I think Apple is getting their etextbooks from them.
 
Wrathwitch said:
You mean, those same kids that occasionally get mugged or jumped for their cell phones?

Makes me wonder how many iPads would be stolen if this kind of thing comes to light.
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Tons of school districts have experimented with iPads and laptops for students. So far, the vast majority of problems with lost/stolen/broken equipment has been the stuff that was issued to the teachers and administrators. Students cherish them and hold on to them.

People getting mugged for cell phones is rare. Nevertheless, it started to become a bit of a problem last year where I live, so the police set up a streamlined workflow. Now, if your phone gets stolen and you report it to the police, they will have a judge sign a search warrant, fax it to your phone company, and have a live tracking feed in a squad car - in less than 15 minutes. Phone thefts have become very rare again.
 
People have been thinking about iPads as we know them. More likely they would be cheap "readers" that only connect to the cloud and only through school WiFi. Not useable anywhere else.

The texts would be in the cloud.

They would be tough, cheap plastic low-spec devices that are useless off of school grounds and can't connect to the internet. Nobody would steal one of those!
 
thenerdal said:
I never carried all my textbooks in middle school. Only once when I took them home and back to school. My school had us keep them at home and they had school copies that stayed in school.

It was a pretty cheap school too. Didn't even have to pay a cent for the books.
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Thinking about it, if everything you need to learn is already in a book, why go to school then? Many teachers just ask their students to open their textbooks and read and do the exercises at the end of the lesson.
Where's the 'teaching' part? No wonder they don't earn much. Only some of them actually teach and love teaching.
 
Amazing Iceman said:
Thinking about it, if everything you need to learn is already in a book, why go to school then? Many teachers just ask their students to open their textbooks and read and do the exercises at the end of the lesson.
Where's the 'teaching' part? No wonder they don't earn much. Only some of them actually teach and love teaching.
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Those kinds of teachers don't teach well and should be fired. Most teachers did that in my school. :(
 
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