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Live Coverage of Apple's Education Event in Chicago
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I really like when Apple or any other company puts effort on education, there is no small feature or failed attempt.
Yeah, shame that Tim Cook had to bring common sense into the event.
Gotta disagree with you. Apple is trying to create a silo for K-12.
It wants to lock students/teachers/administrations into their stack. Sure, the iPad is nice, but this attempt to co-opt poor education markets is disheartening to say the least.
Not if they redesigned it. And that’s only one option. They could have it attach to the 3 dot keyboard port on the side, or even have the lightning adapter come out the side. Anything but having it stick out at the bottom.
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But when you use that you lose the keyboard. They could have made a little a lot in the keyboard (and still make $ off accessories) but that makes too much sense.
exactly this. there is nothing new besides the pencil support and looks the same as last year and apple still lost last year to chromebook
The event was pretty much what I expected, but why did they not throw that AirPower into the store along with the other accessories?
I feel like they have some sort of production problem with it, just like they did with the AirPods.
They've been talking about this damned charging mat since last fall.
Over it.
I feel like they have some sort of production problem with it, just like they did with the AirPods.
They've been talking about this damned charging mat since last fall.
Over it.
All this “cheaper” framing is all iPad Pro anti-propganda
Sadly, the Great Provisioner didn’t bother to shop at IKEA
Tim’s pipeline is LIFO. It came in first, but will get out (if ever) last.
Sadly, the Great Provisioner didn’t bother to shop at IKEA
Am so p**ed with this poor show of an event from an out of touch Apple, for a small school I work for in the UK this all means nothing, I suppose the iCloud extra storage will be good as the only way to manage the sharing of 60 iPads amongst 360 pupils is by using 1 pupil account for all the iPads! thats gets a bit tight with only 5gb
Fortunately Google Drive works great on iPad, they all have their own account as its automatically allocated via G-Suite, they can switch google user accounts quite quickly on iPads and because of the huge unlimited storage we use 1 account for the whole school with year group folders. I don't think we are the only school that works this way! No wonder they are about to invest heavily in Chrome Books. It's like Apple completely ignored G-Suite..
Fortunately Google Drive works great on iPad, they all have their own account as its automatically allocated via G-Suite, they can switch google user accounts quite quickly on iPads and because of the huge unlimited storage we use 1 account for the whole school with year group folders. I don't think we are the only school that works this way! No wonder they are about to invest heavily in Chrome Books. It's like Apple completely ignored G-Suite..
I needed a new iPad but 9.7 is too big and the iPhone is too small/expensive. Frustrating that they won't update the mini.
The update I would like to see — third party plug in support — is not likely to ever happen with “iWork” or “iLife”
Am I the only one thinking the new iPad is pretty jam packed for $300?
I'd like to see a price drop for the pencil though...it's the only thing keeping me from buying one
No, compared to $265 Galaxy Tab A that includes pen, more DRAM and GPS in the WIFI model.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galaxy-SM-P580NZKAXAR-10-1-Inch-Tablet/dp/B01LFV5SI6/
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google already took share from apple who think price/keyboard/screen size/manageability is important and now they are after the market who think they need a tablet by also giving all the important things they care about.
if you think this device is going to make people buy ipad then you might be wrong because last year apple didnt convince enough school to buy ipad and nothing has changed this year
if you think this device is going to make people buy ipad then you might be wrong because last year apple didnt convince enough school to buy ipad and nothing has changed this year
The district I teach in has been 1:1 with iPads since the iPad 2 and we're a public school district... The lower price and the use of the Pencil is a huge boost for us... Kids have been requesting a "good" stylus and while the "pencil" may not be perfect it's certainly better than anything else.
I think this'll sell quite well. Adding Apple Classroom to laptops is gonna be huge. It's a great classroom mgmt tool. I use it daily.
As a coach, using coaches eye w/ the pencil will be tremendous!
I think this'll sell quite well...
IMHO
Coachingguy
Every none iPad district around me, has this exact problem... Keyboards and internals failing... And a lot of it needs to be "sent in" so kids are w/o a device for weeks at a time.
Coachingguy
this is where chromebook absolutely nailed it and the reason why its popular. now they are just after the ipad market with the chromebook tablet
Chromebooks are too cheap and versatile for most of the K-12 market to ignore. Cost is King in education and Apple couldn't care less about meeting Chromebooks on their terms
As I said, the physics of inductive charging makes this unreasonable. This relates to Faraday’s law: The ideal solution for inductive charging devices is a large planar inductive coil in both the sender and the receiver with the maximum possible number of turns inside the plane, which is exactly what the Qi charging standard dictates. If you can tell me how one can fit a large, planar coil inside (presumably) the edge of an iPad or the interior of an Apple Pencil, I’m sure that’d get you somewhere high up in physics.
Until then, Apple cannot redesign its way out of the laws of physics.
Don't people at schools make phone calls? And if so, do they usually use cell phones or landlines ?
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t#There is no high end small android phone, just cheap crap.I would go android for that price and have better specs and screen than the 3 years old SE. The difference between iOS and Android isn’t that big anymore and in many ways Android has a better GUI than iOS.
I don't see Apple ever releasing an update to the iPhone SE, I think the iPhone SE suffered the same fate as the iPhone 5c...it's a one-time product that probably didn't live up to Apple's sales goals or just wasn't a fit for them in the long term.
The iPhone SE was released March 31, 2016 and it's currently March 27, 2018 with no updated SE. I think if Apple was going to continue with the SE line they would have released one last year.
Also I don't see Apple releasing any iPhone every again with a headphone jack so if you want something close to the size of the SE you may as well go with the iPhone 8 which is what I believe Apple is thinking and why they don't see a need for the SE.