Selling PowerSchool
Apple bought the US leading web-based student information system seven months before they announced the original iPod. They purchased PowerSchool before Flickr was created, before Digg launched, and before Facebook was making its way around Harvard.
I don’t know what happened with the product under Apple’s leadership, but they sold it to Pearson in 2006.
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PowerSchool now has 32 million students, 66 million parents, and 100 million users across 13,000 school districts. This market should have been Apple’s to own. Instead, Apple is reliant on a critical part of the stack they can’t control.
Previously: Apple’s Lane Tech Education Event.
