How Apple is Exploiting Android's Weakness. Google's Android OS is Apple's biggest competitor in the mobile world thanks to a major strength, its open and free-wheeling nature.
While Google’s Android manager Sundar Pichai recently argued that being open is good for security, the fact is most malware, by far, is directed at Android. This is not desirable in business and government where, not surprisingly, IT Managers want security, control and single responsible vendor behind both the hardware and software. Apple knows if can offer that, and there are signs that Apple has been moving even more strongly to cash in on its own strengths with iOS and try to turn Android's consumer strength into a business weakness. The Sun Tzu quote here applies. This week, I found several articles that shed some light on Apple's continued movement into the enterprise with iOS.
Next, Apple has published "iOS Deployment Technical Reference. " dated February 2014. MacBook, Chromebook, iPads: Why Schools Should Think Beyond Platforms. By Shawn McCusker How long can any device realistically be expected to remain an effective tool in the classroom?
Three years? Five years? Yet today, when schools decide on a device for their 1:1 programs, that choice quickly gets written into their school “brand.” Schools become identified by that choice, and the evaluation of other devices ceases. The surprising iPad rival in education that isn't a tablet, laptop or desktop. If you've been tracking education tablet deployments over the course of the last 12 months, you'll have seen that business is booming for vendors. iPad roll-outs have varied from the hundreds to the thousands, with the L.A. school district recently agreeing to fork over $30 million to deploy 35,000 iPads.
There has also been a pick-up in demand for Windows 8 tablets, especially from Dell, and even News Corp's Amplify is having some early success, with it due to roll-out a massive 23,000 Android tablets to the North Carolina school district. Why Window 8 Tablets Will Lose To The iPad In Education [Feature. Microsoft may try to challenge the iPad’s place in the classroom, but time isn’t on its side The iPad became a big hit in the K-12 education market over the past year.
Pioneering schools that brought Apple’s tablet into the classroom last school year proved that the iPad can be a excellent learning tool – one that has immense power to transform education. As the new school year begins, and hundreds of thousands of students across the U.S. become iPad users thanks to one-to-one iPad deployments, there’s already talk that the iPad’s success in schools will be short-lived. The belief is that iPads will quickly be replaced by tablets running Microsoft’s Windows RT or Windows 8. 5 Reasons The iPad Will Stay The King of the Classroom. The following piece is by the amazingly talented Adam Webster, Assistant Director of Learning and Teaching at a secondary school in Surrey, England. He writes for both the Edudemic Magazine and his blog ‘ Cageless Thinking ‘ (worth bookmarking).
This article originally appeared on Cageless Thinking and was cross-posted with Adam’s permission. 1. It’s not a laptop The biggest and most oft-heard criticism of the iPad usually revolves around it not behaving like a desktop PC or laptop. Macnn. How To Choose The Best Mobile Device For Your School. Last week, even by my standards, was an EdTech overload. I spent a day at BETT 2013 and followed this up with a visit to The Brewery in London for the Apple Education Leaders Summit. Aside from the fact that they were both free, the two events could not have been more different. One was chaotic, overwhelming in its size, underwhelming in its ability to inspire and poorly lit, the other was cool, calm, slick and intelligently indoctrinating. iPad or Chromebook: 4 Questions To Ask Before Choosing. Crude mashup for your enjoyment. For the past few days, I’ve been playing with a Chromebook.
Though I have been an advocate of Google’s myriad web products since the beta-test Gmail account that I was invited to open over 10 years ago, I had not previously put my hands on one of these devices. I may be in love. This may come as a shock since I have spent the past two years completely immersed in iPads. I love my iPad too, and my iPhone, and my mostly retired iPod Touch. Tablet for K-12 Education. Chromebooks and Chromeboxes for Education. The iPad Isn’t the Only Tablet Computer Being Used in Schools. What originally started out as a novelty item has now become a ubiquitous force to be reckoned with.
The Apple iPad, in its multiple models, has become a major player in classroom computing. Yet just as soon as the iPad revolution started, many followed its lead – resulting in companies designing their own range of tablets to be used in a variety of settings, from workplaces to hospitals and even airports. So what types of these competing tablets are being used in the education? Samsung Schools within the west metro district of Minneapolis are taking advantage of handheld devices and practising a “one-to-one” student-tablet teaching model across all age levels – with regions such as Bloomington, Eden Prairie and Minnetonka benefitting from this revolution.
Microsoft offers Surface RT to schools for as little as $199. Microsoft is pushing to get the Surface RT tablet into schools, and it's using a massive price cut and a giveaway to do it.
