{"id":17324,"date":"2017-03-06T16:49:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T21:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17324"},"modified":"2017-05-19T14:10:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:10:23","slug":"apple-losing-education-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/06\/apple-losing-education-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Losing Education Share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/02\/technology\/apple-products-schools-education.html\">Natasha Singer<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/03\/03\/apple-losing-to-microsoft-google-us-classrooms\/\">MacRumors<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=13780597\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/02\/technology\/apple-products-schools-education.html\"><p>Mobile devices that run on Apple&rsquo;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 on Thursday by Futuresource Consulting, a research company.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>While school administrators generally like the iPad&rsquo;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.<\/p>\n<p>The public school system in Eudora, Kan., for instance, used to have rolling carts of iPads for elementary school classrooms and MacBook carts for older students to share. But last year, when administrators wanted to provide a laptop for each high school student, the district bought 500 Chromebooks at about $230 each.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is sounding like a <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/23\/video-pros-moving-from-mac-to-windows-for-high-end-gpus\/\">familiar refrain<\/a>, but it seems like either Apple doesn&rsquo;t care about this market or it completely misjudged its needs. I haven&rsquo;t used a Chromebook, but at least on paper it seems like a near perfect machine for education: great price and durability, a real keyboard, a larger screen than on Apple&rsquo;s cheaper devices, cloud-based productivity apps, and little need for administration. In some cases, students would need the full power of a Mac or PC, but for most education uses they don&rsquo;t.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2017-05-19): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/13\/technology\/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html\">Natasha Singer<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=14330707\">Hacker News<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Singer (MacRumors, Hacker News): Mobile devices that run on Apple&rsquo;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 on Thursday by Futuresource Consulting, a research company. 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