Wisconsin spending $3.4 million from Microsoft settlement to buy Apple iPads for students
0. phoneArena posted on 28 Jan 2012, 23:09
Using funds won in a settlement with Microsoft, the capital of Wisconsin is buying 1,400 copies of the Apple iPad for students, saying that the tablets are cheaper, more portable and easier to use than laptops; with an educational discount, each iPad is costing the School district $479...
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1. biophone posted on 28 Jan 2012, 23:50 8 3
"The district of Madison is paying an average price of $479, which includes an educational discount."
Apple really cares about students.
3. jcpwn2004 posted on 29 Jan 2012, 01:02 2 0
so true, I know steve jobs hated charity but how hard is it for this company sitting on 90+billion dollars of cash to give a little back.
10. biophone posted on 29 Jan 2012, 09:05 0 1
You mean only have 90 billion and look at the huge discounts they are giving stusents. They really care.
31. Lucas777 posted on 29 Jan 2012, 19:11 2 1
what do u want them to do? free ipads for everyone? they are giving the same, fair educational discount they do for every other educational facility… if the school thought apples products were too overpriced for their tastes, they would go buy something else.. obviously they are not
38. biophone posted on 29 Jan 2012, 22:16 0 0
My point is whats the point of the discount in the first place.
39. Lucas777 posted on 29 Jan 2012, 22:22 2 0
to make it easier for the state to pay?
2. speckledapple posted on 29 Jan 2012, 00:31 1 1
My state is buying iPads huh. Guess my children may be using something different.
4. Bluesky02 posted on 29 Jan 2012, 02:17 1 9
iPad for urrghh... Students? I would rather give them something like an Android tablet, which they can use to express their creativity by customizing, hacking, rooting, change ROM, try out new stuff.
5. bigboy029 posted on 29 Jan 2012, 04:46 3 0
Ya cause that what kids know how to do and care about.... hahahahah
6. thebikerboi2 posted on 29 Jan 2012, 04:47 0 0
dude the ipad is still a nice tablet, and its good for students. i highly doubt that the user in this case would really care about custom roms, rooting, and hacking. plus any of this would probably go against the terms of use set out by the school.
43. thephoneguy92 posted on 30 Jan 2012, 13:34 0 0
I'm pretty sure this was sarcasm, and I laughed. Although, if it wasn't sarcasm, I would say this guys kids are going to be pretty badass when they grow up if this is his standards.
7. Leo_MC posted on 29 Jan 2012, 05:13 0 0
That could end up to be lobby for the kids parents to buy them iPad to use at home.
Just like Windows did years ago.
8. JGuinan007 posted on 29 Jan 2012, 07:52 7 2
The Ipad is old Apple is selling it off to employees for $250, and ripping off the state selling them for $479!? The State should sue them. Apple should give them Ipad 3, or sell them for $250, or better yet sell them the Ipad 3 for $250 it's for the children and they are the future.
14. deepinsideyourmom posted on 29 Jan 2012, 09:47 1 1
Yes I couldn't agree more, I mean the audacity of Apple to sell an obsolete tablet for basically full price to our schools while their employees enjoy a huge discount, all Apple cares about is making money which includes screwing over our children. I just want to screw their Moms but you could say that's not relevant. Message to apple how about donating those ipads for free.
41. Paden posted on 30 Jan 2012, 10:47 0 0
Obselete tablet? I still have the original iPad and it works fine for what I do on it: Web surfing, e-mail, ebooks and some gaming. It even received iOS 5 and will probably get iOS 6 when the time comes. I mean, even the iPhone 3GS got the iOS 5 update.
I doubt these CHILDREN are going to need the highest spec thing out there. They need something that has been widely adopted, is stable and has a large enough ecosystem to provide them with ebooks and educational apps that they need for school.
44. thephoneguy92 posted on 30 Jan 2012, 13:36 0 0
Yeah but have you ever used a 3GS with iOS 5? I have plenty of customers trading them in for iPhone 4/4S's and it is the slowest thing ever. Takes me ten minutes just to get into about to get the Model #. Just because it can, doesn't mean it should.
32. Lucas777 posted on 29 Jan 2012, 19:16 0 0
if the state of Wisconsin is that stupid to check apples product page then we seriously have a problem… somehow i doubt they are buying them for that amount-- its probably the ipad 2
9. Droid_X_Doug posted on 29 Jan 2012, 08:55 4 1
The iPad in the picture looks like an iPad 1!? If the iPad 1 is being unloaded for an average price of $479, Apple is really f*cking them over. But then again, you don't build up a $90+ billion pile of cash without f*cking someone over.
11. snowgator posted on 29 Jan 2012, 09:18 0 0
Okay, I am hoping it is just a stock picture, and that as is usually the case a State Government is just referring to an iPad 2 as an iPad due to them releasing generic responses on press releases. Doesn't hurt to hope, right?
