Tim Cook is agraduateof Robertsdale High School in Robertsdale , Alabama . Until last month , it and other schools in the area provide MacBooks for teacher and students in grade three through 12 ; younger kids were give iPads . Recently , however , the district settle to stop ease up its students the ware of its most far-famed grad . It plans to replace them with Lenovo Chromebooks .
Do you hear that ? That ’s the speech sound of a million Apple fanboys cry all over their comically large iPads .
The Washington Post , whichfirst reportedthe news program , ostensibly got the scoop from school board documents in which the school ’s chief applied science officer exalt that “ Baldwin County will not be using bleeding edge applied science with this effectuation . It will be using proven technology . ” Sick suntan !
The rationality for the switch come down to simple economic science : according to the school , Chromebooks cost or so three - fourth less than MacBooks . ( An N21 Chromebook , a model reportedly under consideration by the district , will set you back about$200 ; a MacBook is closer to thethousand - dollar bill range . ) To complete the burn cycle , the territorial dominion will sell its used MacBooks to pay for its new Chromebooks .
The drive to outfit all students with Apple mathematical product was part of a$24 million“Digital Renaissance ” programme that Apple has seemingly bend into a third - charge per unit regional Renascence festival rather than an actual Renascence .
While the Post emphasize that Apple and Cook had nothing to do with the modification , Google is belike lionise anyway . Its dumb but dedicated takeover of the educational technology market — a niche that Apple was supposedlyset to occupy — has beenexpanding , and now it appear to have touch Tim Cook ’s own backyard .
[ The Washington Post ]
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