Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms

I came across this interesting article about Apple's market share in U.S. Classrooms. To me this does not seem surprising. Regardless of what some hardware manufacturers (and die hard fans) would like people to think, research shows that it does not matter which device you use. What matters is what you use the device for.

When comparing iPads to chromebooks, the main advantage is price. Chromebooks are well under the price of an iPad. Combine that with what schools uses these devices for and the Chromebook wins. Both devices serve the same functions such as

Accessing school materials online through online gradebook and CMS/LMS
Word Processing, Presentation Building, and Spreadsheet creation
Audio/Visual learning tools
Record and edit audio/video
Complete online/state assessments
and more

Both of these can be accomplished with the both devices. Why pay more for the device as well as maintance and repairs?

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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...

See the full article here

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/technology/apple-products-schools-education.html?_r=1

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