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it was the Apple watch that motivated me to start using Apple pay. You cannot beat having your credit card on your wrist. I was never that motivated by having to pull out my iphone.

for me, the mass adoption of ipads for children is nonsense, and a waste of tax payers money. Why are they not adopting the same standards that corporations use, laptops. Laptops are the standard, because they are cheap, have a functional keyboard, and are tried and tested to be worked on for a working day.  I work at a lot of different corporations, and most corporations roll out laptops as standard. It seems odd training students to use tablets, when they are not standard at most corporations. Sure, you will find people in corporations getting tablets out of the corporate budget, but in my view, people buying tablets out of the corporate budget, are mainly doing so out of privilege, or because they have budgetary control or influence. They are luxuries.

I would also be concerned about people using tablets all day, from a display screen equipment(DSE)/eyestrain point of view. They are not comfortable for all day use.

Its just another example of the education sector living in their own bubble. Teachers need to get in to corporations more, and see how the outside world works. I suspect the teachers think they are being "progressive" by using shiny new tech.

I bet the teachers love their free, taxpayer funded ipads. Hate to see government employees getting taxpayer funded perks like this. They should pay benefit in kind tax on the ipads.

robertsm said:

What’s the need for this? People don’t take pictures with their iPads 

unfortunately they do, I see people doing it on holidays, and they look ridiculous holding up their ipads LOL

"pro" seems ridiculous in a phone context. You dont have to be a professional to use a phone....

SpamSandwich said:

More “much ado about nothing.”

Amazon shutting down all but the very largest Apple resellers is anti competitive, and drives up prices. We are fortunate Apple did not convince eBay to do the same. I have bought Apple hardware from eBay sellers multiple times with decent savings.

While we may both love Apple products, I certainly do not support anti competitive moves by the company and would not make posts  suggesting  they are “much ado about nothing”