Apple Education Event

Being out of the Apple & Twitter bubbles, I didn’t see anything about the Apple education event until hours later. At a rich private school, and more pushing the iPad and “pencil” (still $99 for a stylus) in education.

The LA school district fiasco and cheaper Chromebooks make anything Apple currently does an uphill fight, if not impossible outside of isolated environments like private schools. How do you get a public school district to spend more for iPads with a thinner but maybe better set of apps, if their underpaid, part-time IT guy with a Windows XP machine can’t figure it out? What happens after the next LA-style fuckup?

The new iPad at $329 ($567 for 128GB, with pencil & keyboard case) is good enough to replace an iPad pro, so at least something nice has come out of this—my ancient iPad 3 is crashing often, largely from battery and memory problems. Or maybe I’ll just get a new cheapo Linux laptop which is massively more capable, with a built-in keyboard that doesn’t suck to type on. That’s the fight Apple’s got with anything they sell to a price-conscious market.

(Finished posting from my iPhone because my iPad 3 crashed while writing this. Should I expect the next iPad to last longer?)