Apple already tapped out the Chinese market that was in it for the social image and prestige.
More like, the market moved away from Apple. The latest oversized Samsung with a firebreathing quad processor is cool, not Apple's clunky looking product.
See that part about sending kids home regularly for "short days"? I would know, I had a kid in that system. That was the "good" side of town. Pathetic.
This deal is just plain rich however you apologize for it.
Wasn't this tried before? The students and teachers found little use for them because they could not interact easily with their PCs with word/excel/email etc.
These days they would interact with Google docs, Wikpedia, etc. Why they need overpriced, proprietary Apple products for that is far from clear.
BTW, a few electrocutions from now maybe people will figure out what's wrong with a solid aluminum case.
You're forgetting the infrastructure to support it. Wifi in classrooms, provisioning system. School App Store. Insurance policy. Training for teachers. Licensing for content.
Bonuses for salesmen. Payola for school board. Hush money for regulators. Champagne for Apple execs.
the price includes a lot of online course content for the kids
That's a little rich for content that is created once and thereafter costs the vendor $0.00 to distribute. What was the tender process for this contract?
Wow, $968 per tablet, what a great deal. Only four times more than retail for the higher specced Nexus 7. This in a city where kids are regularly sent home for "short days" to save salary.
Samsung truly does not care about Google's own-brand phones, because it outsells them by a large multiple. Google's phones are more like "concept cars", they showcase new OS features and set the hardware standard, to Samsung's benefit.
They abandoned their symbiotic relationship with Apple and used Eric Schmidt's position as an Apple board member to become a competitor in the Mobile market.
Wow, that's some major respin. The way I heard it, they bought a startup named "Android" and used it to become a competitor in the Mobile market. Google did this because Apple planned to take the smartphone advertising market for itself, which you didn't need to be on Apple's board to know.
Don't be an ass. Linux does not "go nowhere", it rules the world at the moment, or didn't you notice that you are surrounded by Linux devices because you are too busy admiring the daily poop you excrete onto Slashdot.
There is exactly one major computing segment where Linux does not rule the world, and that is PCs, where Microsoft owns and operates a thuggish racket involving illegal exercise of market power over vendors. And that one is starting to show cracks.
Google is sick of 1 company on earth making any significant money off Android, and it isn't them. Expect Android to become less and less open.
Google will do that at it peril. "More open" is an important line of attack that Samsung has. And as the biggest vendor of Android handsets - by far - Samsung has more than a little leverage there.
I expect that Google will ultimately be forced to cede control of Android development to a community board. Winner: everybody, even Google, because Android will suck less when users are actually able to fix the stupid things that are wrong with it.
It's the "big lie". What is the charger for an Android phone? Oh right, a standard USB cable. What is the charger for an Apple product? Oh right, an electric chair waiting to happen. Compounded by the aluminum case. Hey isn't that the same aluminum case that makes an awful antenna?
Apple: think deadly.
Wow, why do I feel like I just criticized the church of scientology?
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Apple already tapped out the Chinese market that was in it for the social image and prestige.
More like, the market moved away from Apple. The latest oversized Samsung with a firebreathing quad processor is cool, not Apple's clunky looking product.
Well, and apple's product is actually butt ugly. Somebody should get over that "iconic" thing, it looks like a sardine tin.
I would not start betting on their demise just yet.
But I would bet on their continuing descent into irrelevance. Apple is already something your mom is more likely to own than you.
Stuffing technology in schools in this manner has no impact on education.
What do you mean? Stuffing money into Apple's richly tailored pockets teaches the kids that nothing gets you ahead like greed and avarice.
And throwing a few full time employees at astromodding social sites works wonders too.
Because the vendors driver code is not closed to Microsoft.
See that part about sending kids home regularly for "short days"? I would know, I had a kid in that system. That was the "good" side of town. Pathetic.
This deal is just plain rich however you apologize for it.
Wasn't this tried before? The students and teachers found little use for them because they could not interact easily with their PCs with word/excel/email etc.
These days they would interact with Google docs, Wikpedia, etc. Why they need overpriced, proprietary Apple products for that is far from clear.
BTW, a few electrocutions from now maybe people will figure out what's wrong with a solid aluminum case.
With Android's market share in tablets exceeding Apple by a wide margin you would expect that this emphasis on Apple will wane.
Not until Apple runs out of payola.
You're forgetting the infrastructure to support it. Wifi in classrooms, provisioning system. School App Store. Insurance policy. Training for teachers. Licensing for content.
Bonuses for salesmen. Payola for school board. Hush money for regulators. Champagne for Apple execs.
the price includes a lot of online course content for the kids
That's a little rich for content that is created once and thereafter costs the vendor $0.00 to distribute. What was the tender process for this contract?
the $30 million is for the first 31,000 only
Wow, $968 per tablet, what a great deal. Only four times more than retail for the higher specced Nexus 7. This in a city where kids are regularly sent home for "short days" to save salary.
Stuffing technology in schools in this manner has no impact on education.
What do you mean? Stuffing money into Apple's richly tailored pockets teaches the kids that nothing gets you ahead like greed and avarice.
I can hardly wait for Apple to finish building that frisbee ring of a headquarters so I can mock it.
1) Build world's ugliest yacht
2) Build world's ugliest HQ
3) ???
4) Profit
Nokia cuts its own throat and now has no one else to blame.
Elop cut Nokia's throat.
Elop said that the platform was burning. The week before, Elop was a Microsoft exec. Elop is to be believed, exactly why?
It was Elop who burnt the platform, the memo was just to establish plausible deniability.
Samsung truly does not care about Google's own-brand phones, because it outsells them by a large multiple. Google's phones are more like "concept cars", they showcase new OS features and set the hardware standard, to Samsung's benefit.
They abandoned their symbiotic relationship with Apple and used Eric Schmidt's position as an Apple board member to become a competitor in the Mobile market.
Wow, that's some major respin. The way I heard it, they bought a startup named "Android" and used it to become a competitor in the Mobile market. Google did this because Apple planned to take the smartphone advertising market for itself, which you didn't need to be on Apple's board to know.
Don't be an ass. Linux does not "go nowhere", it rules the world at the moment, or didn't you notice that you are surrounded by Linux devices because you are too busy admiring the daily poop you excrete onto Slashdot.
There is exactly one major computing segment where Linux does not rule the world, and that is PCs, where Microsoft owns and operates a thuggish racket involving illegal exercise of market power over vendors. And that one is starting to show cracks.
any USB charger will charge an iPhone
With a dongle. That's pathetic.
Did you really?
Larry can get pretty kinky
Google is sick of 1 company on earth making any significant money off Android, and it isn't them. Expect Android to become less and less open.
Google will do that at it peril. "More open" is an important line of attack that Samsung has. And as the biggest vendor of Android handsets - by far - Samsung has more than a little leverage there.
I expect that Google will ultimately be forced to cede control of Android development to a community board. Winner: everybody, even Google, because Android will suck less when users are actually able to fix the stupid things that are wrong with it.
It's the "big lie". What is the charger for an Android phone? Oh right, a standard USB cable. What is the charger for an Apple product? Oh right, an electric chair waiting to happen. Compounded by the aluminum case. Hey isn't that the same aluminum case that makes an awful antenna?
Apple: think deadly.
Wow, why do I feel like I just criticized the church of scientology?
The Apple charger has a standard USB power port.
"Has a" is not the same as "is a". Even in a reality distortion zone.