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Turkish Prime Minister Visits Apple Ahead of Major Tablet Purchase
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What part of the world are you from? Have you ever been to Turkey or even came near to Europe?
Big enough deal where if you bought 10.6 million iPads, you might have Apple and the police questioning what you're doing.
so i'm guessing that students will also get a free iJihad app on their ipads?
a/ If this is trolling - you got a little response but not heaps. You need to try harder.
b/ if this is comedy - stick with your day job.
c/ Clearly your "try-hard" app is working.
I could write more on Turkey but lets not get into name calling. Thanks for the post.
The kids get better learning tools and Apple gets them hooked onto the eco system when they are young. Win-Win.
so i'm guessing that students will also get a free iJihad app on their ipads?
Turkey is very proud of their secular constitution.
The US could learn a thing or two. As could you...
LOL
and how many people live in Israel? 7 million? 8?? Just Istanbul is double that.. Israel has a workforce about 2-3 million people, even if they grew 10% per year, it wouldnt have much effect in the region.Additionally, if you take away military and defense equipment production, whats left in Israel economy?? Services..
10 million tablets is a HUGE purchase for any brand whatsoever. Plus, imagine 10 million kids growing with Apple addiction, its more about future-proofing a market really..
One major issues is upport. Both in terms of apps and systems for making apps and books and such and actual tech support. iOS lack of malware, the developer program,possibility of stores coming to the country. These things could tip the scale to Apple rather hard and fast.
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Most kids don't need the latest and greatest for school purposes.
Then again, perhaps that is the intention but they are deciding now because that's basically the preorder stock for a launch. Apple would need to know well in advance of this purchase so they can ramp up production to cover it
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If Apple intended to 'fix' the user issue they could have done it ages ago. That they haven't seems like a clear sign they don't view these as multiuser devices no matter how the users are using them.
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Something tells me that you haven't spent any serious time researching the issue
For the last couple of years turkey's been a secular state only on a paper
Turkey is one of the few secular countries in the world. Looking at your previous comments, you obviously have no insight regarding Turkey or Europe, so meh.. Wont bother going on and on..
It doesn't matter how many people are in the country. Economic growth is based on % from GDP. Turkey has about 1.5-2% a year, Israel has about 5-6% a year, so Israel has a faster growing economy than Turkey. Israel's economy is based on product export, which takes about 40% of its GDP.LOL
Additionally, if you take away military and defense equipment production, whats left in Israel economy?? Services..
10 million tablets is a HUGE purchase for any brand whatsoever. Plus, imagine 10 million kids growing with Apple addiction, its more about future-proofing a market really..
I thought Apples were a more suitable stuffing for pork, Turkey probably needs some sage and onion.
Sure, one of the richest companies on the planet will make a $quizzilion out of this, but Apple have genuinely been about improvement over the years, and have focused on education continually.
Mr Jobs has made it clear that if they concentrate on the things that matter, the rest will take care of itself. They've focused on making a phenomenal ecosystem for learning, and this is the result. It's the way it's brought education together with technology that has brought this about.
...or they could opt for droid and end up with a completely 'fragmented' education system.
Completely agree with you, but you're feeding the trolls...
Mr Jobs has made it clear that if they concentrate on the things that matter, the rest will take care of itself. They've focused on making a phenomenal ecosystem for learning, and this is the result. It's the way it's brought education together with technology that has brought this about.
...or they could opt for droid and end up with a completely 'fragmented' education system.
Turkey is one of the few secular countries in the world. Looking at your previous comments, you obviously have no insight regarding Turkey or Europe, so meh.. Wont bother going on and on..
Completely agree with you, but you're feeding the trolls...
so i'm guessing that students will also get a free iJihad app on their ipads?
Wow, racist much?
First, read the first part of ny post. Android hardware is worth close to nothing after a year.
Second, quality, usability for non-nerds and appearance. Everything about android is simply ugly. Their font is causing eye cancer.
First off most education systems cut costs by keeping things for a while and dont buy new stuff the day it comes out. 10 years from now that ipad will be worthless also. Your quality argument comes down to the appearance of higher quality and preference of build materials when one really isnt much better then the other. I can tell you havnt used an android tablet in many years since now they are in no way harder to use then and ipad and in many ways are easier to navigate to many things. Also android has multi user support so unless its a 1-1 tablet student ratio android is better in that regards. Also android options are much cheaper leaving money over for other programs like sports/clubs/tutoring/lower student to teacher ratio/healthier food choices and many others all of which will help educate children more then a tablet.