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Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms

From	"Wally" <wwally_5@sun.com>
Subject	Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms
Message-ID	<d12be861be5b6b4434daa40ca4f35616@dizum.com> (permalink)
Date	2017-03-06 07:36 +0100
Newsgroups	alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Apple is losing its grip on American classrooms, which 
technology companies have long used to hook students on their 
brands for life.

Over the last three years, Apple’s iPads and Mac notebooks — 
which accounted for about half of the mobile devices shipped to 
schools in the United States in 2013 — have steadily lost ground 
to Chromebooks, inexpensive laptops that run on Google’s Chrome 
operating system and are produced by Samsung, Acer and other 
computer makers.

Mobile devices that run on Apple’s iOS and MacOS operating 
systems have now reached a new low, falling to third place 
behind both Google-powered laptops and Microsoft Windows 
devices, according to a report released last week by 
Futuresource Consulting, a research company.

Of the 12.6 million mobile devices shipped to primary and 
secondary schools in the United States in 2016, Chromebooks 
accounted for 58 percent of the market, up from 50 percent in 
2015, according to the report. School shipments of iPads and Mac 
laptops fell to 19 percent, from about 25 percent, over the same 
period. Microsoft Windows laptops and tablets remained 
relatively stable at about 22 percent, Futuresource said.

“Apple is struggling,” said Mike Fisher, an education-technology 
analyst at Futuresource.

Apple said education was a long-standing value for the company.

“Mac and iPad are the best tools in education to help teachers 
teach and students learn,” Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice 
president of product marketing, wrote in an email. “We’re 
incredibly passionate about education and new programs like 
Apple Teacher,” a site for teachers who want to learn how to 
more creatively use Apple tools with students, she said.

The rise of Google’s Chromebooks has disrupted the momentum of 
Apple, which has been marketing its computers to schools for 
some 40 years.

Apple has recently widened its education offerings. Last year, 
it introduced an app, called Classroom, to help teachers see and 
manage their students’ activities on iPads. It also created a 
free iPad app, called Swift Playgrounds, that introduces 
students to writing computer code.

The shift toward Google-powered devices is hurting Apple’s 
revenue. Of the $7.35 billion that schools, colleges and 
universities spent on mobile and desktop computers in 2016, 
sales of Apple devices fell to $2.8?billion in 2016, from about 
$3.2?billion in 2015, according to IDC, a market-research firm. 
Windows devices generated $2.5 billion in 2016, up from $2.1 
billion in 2015, while Chrome devices reached $1.9 billion, up 
from $1.4 billion.

The Chromebook has beaten out classroom competitors on pricing, 
usability and other factors. Chromebooks run apps through 
Google’s cloud-based Chrome operating system, making them 
cheaper — and often faster to boot up — than traditional laptops 
that rely on hard drives.

Because Chromebooks store documents in the cloud, they can be 
shared among students, who can grab any school device to access 
their class work. Google also provides school administrators 
with an online dashboard to remotely manage thousands of the 
laptops at once.

Then there is the keyboard issue. While school administrators 
generally like the iPad’s touch screens for younger elementary 
school students, some said older students often needed laptops 
with built-in physical keyboards for writing and taking state 
assessment tests.

To compete with Chromebooks, Microsoft announced last month that 
it had worked with Acer, HP and Lenovo to develop low-cost 
Windows laptops for schools, with prices starting at $189. The 
company also introduced an app, called Microsoft Intune for 
Education, to enable schools to more easily set up Windows 
devices.

Google announced last month that it had worked with Asus and 
Acer to develop for schools new Chromebooks that can also 
convert to tablets.

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/apples-devices-lose-luster-
in-american-classrooms/

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Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms "Wally" <wwally_5@sun.com> - 2017-03-06 07:36 +0100
  Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Martin Edwards <big_mart_98@yahoo.co.uk> - 2017-03-06 08:38 +0000
    Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-06 11:29 -0500
      Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-06 10:59 -0600
        Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-06 12:37 -0500
          Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-06 11:49 -0600
            Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-06 13:28 -0500
            Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Martin Edwards <big_mart_98@yahoo.co.uk> - 2017-03-07 08:25 +0000
              Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-07 07:48 -0500
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2017-03-07 13:57 +0100
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-07 08:18 -0500
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-07 08:13 -0600
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-03-07 09:44 -0500
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-07 15:00 +0000
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-07 14:45 +0000
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-07 08:52 -0600
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-07 15:00 +0000
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-07 09:19 -0600
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-07 15:48 +0000
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-07 11:54 -0500
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-07 11:29 -0600
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-07 17:44 +0000
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-07 13:11 -0500
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2017-03-07 18:14 +0000
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-07 12:32 -0600
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2017-03-07 10:51 -0800
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-07 15:11 -0500
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2017-03-07 21:32 +0100
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-07 15:45 -0500
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-07 21:57 +0000
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2017-03-07 23:08 +0100
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2017-03-07 14:13 -0800
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2017-03-08 00:14 +0100
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2017-03-07 15:33 -0800
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-03-07 16:22 -0700
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-07 17:40 -0500
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-07 23:41 +0000
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms "Greg" <greg.vance@once_gte.com> - 2017-03-10 05:07 +0100
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2017-03-10 09:33 +0100
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Anonymous <anonymous@foto.nl1.torservers.net> - 2017-03-12 05:34 -0400
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-07 17:39 -0500
                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-07 22:41 +0000
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                Re: Apple's "keep-them-dumb" overpriced devices lose luster in American classrooms chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-07 11:22 -0600
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