msuberly

This is a load of crap.  The problem is with one company.  If the author took the effort to actually view the numbers of complaints instead of being lazy and only looking at the Downdetector graph he would see that the complaints of AT&T this morning dwarf the low numbers at Verizon and T-Mobile.  That backs up Verizon's and T-Mobile's statements that their networks are fine and the complaints are because their customers cannot reach AT&T customers.

So simple, there is no widget feature. Or notifications. Or...

isteelers said:

antonpablo said:

Not buying Time Warner was the moment Apple dodged a bullet. Best of the thousand "NOs" they have said.

How true. It would be nothing but problems buying the entire company.  Now it may make sense to purchase parts, but which parts is the question. 

Easier to buy the whole thing and spin off what Apple doesn't want. 

rogifan_new said:

lord amhran said:

Not totally surprising. The iPad, while nice, isn't something I'd want to use long-term in a classroom setting. I need a full wordprocessor, spreadsheet among other things and for that my MacBook Air is vastly better for me.

Seems to me these weren't deployed properly if students were playing games on them. Calling the iPad a toy is ridiculous. And if the need was word processing and spreadsheets why did they choose iPads to begin with?

Because schools jump on the iPad bandwagon without understanding how to use them.

williamh said:

The iPad is just a tool.  It's not Apple's fault if the Maine schools didn't have a plan for their effective use.  Shouldn't they iPads have been secured sufficiently to prevent students from installing games?

Say, I've got a hammer to return to the hardware store because it doesn't serve any function in my home.  Obviously it's a faulty hammer.

Who said the students were installing games? The schools likely rolled out cute little interactive apps that, in the end, served no educational purpose. That is my experience with iPads in schools.