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Apple Tries to Win Back Students and Teachers with Low-Cost iPad

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> the quality of the textbooks on the Chromebook are terrible Would you expect the textbooks to be better quality on the iPads vs on the Chromebooks? Why?

No, I just expected them to be better, more like an ebook than a crappy PDF. If I could move the textbooks to my daughter's iPad I would, but they're licensed and I haven't tried to work around the DRM.

Textbooks that cannot be read on a different device due to DRM? That's some really ugly distopian stuff. Feels so wrong on multiple levels.

Back when I was in school, I was getting some of the textbooks second hand from the year older students and selling mine to the younger ones, on a fair organized by the school.

Re: Apple Tries to Win Back Students and Teachers with Low-Cost iPad

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My kids have now had both iPads and Chromebooks, and the Chromebooks were obvious winners in every single way. The teachers and kids both like them, they're clearly better for actual school work and learning, everything is just better. It's just a nice bonus that they're way cheaper.

But what about using them offline?

We looked at one for our son while we were backpacking. The advice I received was you can’t. Without a wireless connection it is totally useless.

In our case we were 3 weeks at sea with only email access.

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