You clearly haven't eaten school food anytime recently.
I always hated chicken chow mein because of school lunch memories.
You clearly haven't eaten school food anytime recently.
Right. How dare these evil companies to undercut Apple.
After all, Apple only wants to make their customer happy, and does not care one bit about profits and CEO salaries.
Oh, and let's not forget, Apple is donating the little profit they made on the most "underfunded" disease of all -- HIV/AIDS: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0016837 ("NIH Disease Funding Levels and Burden of Disease").
Seriously, why does Apple not donate large amounts of money to Pancreatic Cancer research? Would that not be a good way to honor Steve Jobs?
But I guess, in today's PC-crazed society AIDS research is perceived as more PC...
Hmm.... 1. Steve Jobs was very passionate about AIDS research and it honors that legacy.
2. Pancreatic cancer affects a very small number of people, and preventing any cancer is somewhat connected.
3. You're probably one of those idiots who thinks it's a gay disease and are at the highest risk of getting it because of said iggnorance or do not know that woman are 90% more likely to contract hiv than a gay male.
4. Apple does a lot of charity... and the red line generates most of the money donated.
Better than completely foreign, is it not? Or are we being completely daft here?
You can give ALL students access to technology for a lot less that 1.3 billion dollars.
We really don't have to put iPads in every single students' hands or in every single classroom. Especially if it's going to cost 800 million just to update and support the technology.
This is another one of those, "sounds nice on paper" kinda things.
Should have been spent on more and better teachers, healthier cafeteria food, renovating old schools, etc..
AIDS is (easily) avoidable *. (Pancreatic) Cancer is not.
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I know with 100% certainty that I will never get AIDS
Are you not offended?
With Wikileaks founder saying that Google is working for the state department, FBI getting mad at Apple over encryption, and this. It's starting to sound slot like US GOV vs Apple. And the GOV (and Google) are pulling all the stops into slicing Apple with lawsuits and undercutting products.
Sad world.
With Wikileaks founder saying that Google is working for the state department,
FBI getting mad at Apple over encryption
Sad world.
Really? What content exactly?I feel like Chromebooks would be a better choice anyway. Much more educational content including Pearson's is available on ChromeOS than iOS.
They're not buying latest model ones. They're getting older/cheaper ones and also a huge volume discount.iPads and other tablets for education are a bad idea:
- expensive to buy
Laptops are also obsolete and broken within a few years. My 1st Generation iPad is 4 years old now and still works just as well today as the day I purchased it, although it can't run the latest iOS and struggles with some third party apps (eg, clash of clans has slow framerates and RAM intensive web pages crash the browser. Four years ago not many web pages needed a lot of RAM but today it's a problem).- obsolete, broken, or needing new batteries within a few years
They are not user replaceable but they are technician replaceable. And when you have thousands of them, that is not a big deal. Anyway my iPad is 4 years old and still lasts 2 or 3 days on a charge.- batteries not user replaceable, expensive to send in and replace
These are young kids. They don't take notes, they will mostly only be used to read books.- taking notes with a stylus sucks compared to pencil and paper
A galaxy note is even more expensive than a low end iPad... and has all the same problems you're complaining about.- Galaxy Note with S-pen is alright, but an S-pen is $30 and easily lost
Hopefully Pearson's app stores everything on the device, it's got a dozen gigabytes of storage. Should be plenty.- defects and network congestion interrupt the curriculum
Again, they're not supposed to type much. If they are, then they should be using a laptop. Running Windows.- on-screen keyboard takes up too much screen real estate + not easy to type.
That is a problem for sure.- schools go cheap on bluetooth keyboards that aren't reliable, don't connect
So they need to learn. How the **** are teachers supposed to teach kids if they can't even use a tablet that has been locked down to only be able to access software written specifically for the school?- teachers aren't apple technicians and can't always troubleshoot it
Big is good. expensive I disagree with —*providing a better education is cheaper long term as better education means a better economy once they grow up. I'm not even going to get started on politically correct - I prefer to keep politics out of the discussion.- overall just a big, expensive, "politically correct" waste of money.
No we don't. What we have now is perfectly fine.Fact is, tech is just not there yet. Would need a $100 tablet with next generation battery (1 week per charge, 5000 cycles), superior stylus system (responsive and fine like paper and pen, stylus itself under $5 and sold everywhere in the pen aisle).
You do realize that the majority of parts of the iPhone benefit Japan and Germany more than any other company, right? The labor costs are very little, and the profit goes to a US company. Samsung does not manufacture all of its products, either.
Agreed! I teach Kindergarten in LAUSD and this is the type of tech we have for my students to work with. I'm now on sites like donors choose trying to raise money to get them a better computer.
The only daftness in this thread is the shortsightedness to not realize that this is a world economy, where every dollar invested in a foreign market ultimately ends up being reinvested back in this one.
Do you think it's 1950? AMURR'CA!
This is another one of those, "sounds nice on paper" kinda things.
Agreed! I teach Kindergarten in LAUSD and this is the type of tech we have for my students to work with. I'm now on sites like donors choose trying to raise money to get them a better computer.
No, you assume they are the best.I don't get it. We all know iPads are the best. So why are grown ups trying to hurt the children by taking their iPads away and replacing them with something inferior that will cause sad energy.
Grown ups are dumb. They show how poor they did at school by these actions. iDiots