Underwhelming to say the least.
On the other hand, I'm glad I don't have to buy a new iPad Pro and/or a new Pencil
On the other hand, I'm glad I don't have to buy a new iPad Pro and/or a new Pencil
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"Everyone Can Create."
is it still a US$ 100 per year to be allowed to publish via the App Store?
is it still a US$ 100 per year to be allowed to publish via the App Store?
From what I've heard from my client and friends over the past 2 years or so since the Pencil shipped, the significance of the Pencil support is less about people WANTING it and more about Customer Satisfaction AFTER purchase when they find out the iPad they got their kid for Christmas doesn't work with the Pencil the kid just hounded them to buy for birthday! "But the COMMERCIAL!" You can't believe how many returned, un-successfully-used Pencils Apple must have had to deal with… I have an idea because I've heard WAY TOO MANY complaints personally. Pencil support was something that NEEDED to happen for Apple to even have a prayer to remain relevant in the low-end EDU/kids market without 1 year CusSat tanking. In Apple Pencil, Apple created a monster by perceptually over-promising and under-delivering.
Its still in beta apple could release it in april when ever they seem it ready people just assume rounours are true
Precisely. I bet Superintendent is going to ask money for the $249/student
While you may be right, a good superintendent would ask for the tool that is best for students. Unfortunately, Apple fails not just at cost, but also all around usability without a keyboard, and the crippled nature of Google Apps on iOS. Further, unless they fixed the IT management piece, it could be a nonstarter even if everything else was in place.
One small note. While the actual initial cost of a Chromebook is indeed around $249, the ongoing cost is higher. In my district, very few of our Chromebooks have had keyboards last more than a year. These things are not durable at all.
One hour for just one product but, boy, was it worth it.
Apple decided to offer a pretty sweet iPad with all you need for a low price.
Today the iPad is in fact the only Apple product with a properly tiered offer. Every customers has decent offers.
I hope this says something about future Apple launches.
Apple decided to offer a pretty sweet iPad with all you need for a low price.
Today the iPad is in fact the only Apple product with a properly tiered offer. Every customers has decent offers.
I hope this says something about future Apple launches.
If you have say... less than 50 devices, I imagine you could get away with using Configurator 2, on its own. I agree though, Apple should have produced their own management software from the get-go. Unfortunately most MDM software isn't free, so organisations should be factoring this into their costs before making purchasing decisions.
The physics of inductive charging makes this impossible.
Well, not impossible, but somewhere between silly and unreasonable.
Yeah Apple thought web apps were the future when they introduced the iPhone and iOS. Turns out they were very wrong.
That is the White Elefant in the Room. I teach at a technical college, my students carry all kinds of mobile electronics into the classroom. Did it actually improve their abilities?
I can not find the evidence that they are smarter now, than they where 10 years ago...
Yeah but you know how the politics behind it works, especially with an elected board. If I had to make the decision, I’d buy this new iPad in the blink of an eye. It’s definitely a superior product, and that’s why on my first post on the issue I am not blaming the product but the lack of understanding of how the system works. Apple can make the best product in the history of humanity, but if it wants to sell it to public entities it has to consider the budgetary (= political! ) factors.
I agree. There are definitely some really neat things that technology brings to the table, the Desmos graphing calculator being perhaps the best example, but for so many situations, they simply add complication and distraction from the learning.
Pretty poor effort on the pricing. Students get 15% off Macs and the schools only get 10% on an iPad!
Nothing beats a notebook, a nice pencil and a great teacher in a classroom.
Somebody in education infrastructure should create an "Open Education Foundation":
- create a github org
- create a repo in that org describing what's in the scope of that org
- solicit ideas from others, even vendors like Apple and Google
- collaborate/debate/argue and come up with an OK platform
- if/when you fail, scrape yourself off and keep at it
- solicit funds from those same vendors to ensure your foundation's viability. (Trust me, if Apple nor Google won't support you, some other hungry infrastructure company will. It won't be the leader, it will be the hungry competitor)
- get open source developers to help implement it
- steer your future to where you want it to go.
There are 50 million K-12 students in the US. Tap into that power.
Too many laws. In California, the biggest problem would be student privacy laws. I like the sentiment, but it would be very difficult to implement. The only platform that I know of that has had any success with this is Moodle, and even then, most of their momentum was sucked up when Google Classroom came along.
I feel you. Apple has neglected too many areas for too long. Too many school districts had bad experiences with iPads and you can’t get them back without listening to the users about its biggest shortcomings. They haven’t addressed them. Although it’s a little step in the right direction, the competition in the meanwhile take three big steps in the right direction. Apple refuses to listen to it’s shortcomings and it’s not only showing in education. More and more people realize they don’t need über priced iPads or computers. They were willing to pay that in the past because there wasn’t any good alternative. Fast forward today: Apple is still über priced but also lagging in offering what the competition already addressed. It’s the arrogance they still think they’re king that they feel justified to ask high prices. Dear Tim Cook: Apple is getting out of date. Don’t you really get it? Look around you and see for yourself. You’re right though: you can only seeing coming that from Apple. It’s a mantra that worked in the past but is shameful today.