[New post] Opinion: 8 reasons Chromebooks are beating iPads in education, and what Apple could do about it

Ben Lovejoy posted: " Apple for a time led the tech market in education, even making education-specific Mac models. More recently, the company made a big push on iPads, signing a $30M deal (that would eventually have been worth a quarter of a billion dollars) in 2013 to eq" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on 9to5Google Opinion: 8 reasons Chromebooks are beating iPads in education, and what Apple could do about it by Ben Lovejoy Apple for a time led the tech market in education, even making education-specific Mac models. More recently, the company made a big push on iPads, signing a $30M deal (that would eventually have been worth a quarter of a billion dollars) in 2013 to equip every student in the LA Unified School District with an iPad. If that program had succeeded, it would have created a template for rolling out similar ones across the whole of the USA. Instead, it failed catastrophically, and it now appears that Chromebooks are winning where iPads have failed. CNBC reported last month that Chromebooks now make up more than half of all devices in U.S. classrooms, while Apple's share of classroom purchases more than halved between 2012 and 2015. Why is that, and what – if anything – can Apple do to reverse the trend ... ? Read more of this post Ben Lovejoy | January 13, 2016 at 6:59 am | Tags: Apple Inc., Chromebooks, education, Google, iPad | Categories: Chrome/OS | URL: http://wp.me/p1w6tN-xyM Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from 9to5Google. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://9to5google.com/2016/01/13/opinion-8-reasons-chromebooks-are-beating-ipads-education/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com