It’s wasted money. California will not reward Apple for taking a hit on pricing. They’ll be targeted with the usual spate of entitled political interests attacking them and will see their taxes going up for the “pleasure” of remaining in the state.
You just can't help ruining a thread simply because CA was mentioned. Step away from the OANN and try to get some perspective.
If he is a tax payer in the state footing the bill, and raises a point regarding said state, how is that ruining the thread?
Have you read his comments? He's an crotchety old man looking for any reason to attack anything that doesn't support Trump, which includes but not limited to CA, liberals, Democrats.
Seems to me you are the one attacking.
Responding to stupid, provocative, political comments is not the same as "attacking". It's just calling bull to the bull. But close minded, brainwashed and entitled idiots tend to see it as an attack.
Here in Southern Illinois a school district has banned the use of private computers, tablets, or smartphones for virtual learning. Parents MUST go to the school and pick up a Chromebook for their kid to use at home. Why remains a mystery.
Likely similar thoughts to using a company-issued device. They probably feel they can better manage the software, upgrades and lock it down from unauthorized uses. This way, the IT departments only have to worry about one type of device to support. Imagine the myriad of laptops, desktops, tablets, phones etc. that would exist among families in even a single school district. Then add multiple Operating systems at various levels of updates. It would be a nightmare.
As a former support person I get what you saying and agree.
But:
Times are moving forward and two things have happened:
1) Kids and parents are far more familiar with using supporting the hardware and software in tablets and laptops.
2) Most programs have migrated back to cloud based (where things were in the earlier days of mainframe computing before things moved to "personal computers")
Today my experience has been that most problems arise from two areas: 1) Communications (between cable, routers, and the myriad issues involving WiFi
2) Poor instructions. When my grandson was converted to cyber learning almost all of our issues involved:
a) Knowing what the assignments were and keeping track of changes b) Finding & accessing the assignment
c) Uploading the completed assignment or test -- which was often a rather detailed, tricky, convoluted process that was poorly explained.
T-Mobile cellular would definitely help with the first of those issues, but not the second. The second is software and administrative based and would exist no matter the hardware.
Here in Southern Illinois a school district has banned the use of private computers, tablets, or smartphones for virtual learning. Parents MUST go to the school and pick up a Chromebook for their kid to use at home. Why remains a mystery.
Likely similar thoughts to using a company-issued device. They probably feel they can better manage the software, upgrades and lock it down from unauthorized uses. This way, the IT departments only have to worry about one type of device to support. Imagine the myriad of laptops, desktops, tablets, phones etc. that would exist among families in even a single school district. Then add multiple Operating systems at various levels of updates. It would be a nightmare.
This exactly! I used to work for a school district and when we were prepping a 1-to-1 intuitive we steered clear of BYOD for the exact same reason. Its a technical support nightmare and its just not worth it. What we did instead was be more lenient on allowing students to personalize the device so the student would make it feel more like its their device as long as there was no permanent damage to the device.
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Responding to stupid, provocative, political comments is not the same as "attacking". It's just calling bull to the bull. But close minded, brainwashed and entitled idiots tend to see it as an attack.
1) Communications (between cable, routers, and the myriad issues involving WiFi
b) Finding & accessing the assignment
This exactly! I used to work for a school district and when we were prepping a 1-to-1 intuitive we steered clear of BYOD for the exact same reason. Its a technical support nightmare and its just not worth it. What we did instead was be more lenient on allowing students to personalize the device so the student would make it feel more like its their device as long as there was no permanent damage to the device.