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And a Chromebook will be Google-ridden from hour zero. :) Still, I suppose it's useful to get kids used to the idea of all their digital lives being owned by G

• vetinari 10y ago
  Don't worry, nowadays Microsoft mines the windows systems just like Google mines their online services. It' pick you master scenario, not choose between freedom or fiefdom.
  • Grangar 10y ago
    Linux is the only (albeit unfeasible) choice left...
• Oletros 10y ago
  > And a Chromebook will be Google-ridden from hour zero. :) Does Google Apps for Education mine anything?
  • vetinari 10y ago
    No, and neither for Business. However, after the kids finish the school, they won't have their education accounts and so they will open the free ones, because they are used to the Google ecosystem. You know, the first shot is for free.
    • jrnichols 10y ago
      This. I think that it's genius and at the same time frightening at just how well Google has done in the education market, especially how well they've done at getting children to equate the internet with all things Google. Kids (at least the ones at the daughter's school) have no idea what email is. They only know Gmail. They don't know that there is any other search engine besides Google. They don't know that there are any other office suites besides Google Docs. They go to Youtube for everything. Which is easy when Google searches for things will show you a Google property before anything else. The kids are living in a totally Google world at school since the school district went Google. They barely know anything else. And Google loves it that way.
  • blub 10y ago
    Some students from Berkeley are suing Google for scanning their apps for education emails. Google says they're not doing it anymore since 2014. Only Google knows.
    • Oletros 10y ago
      Perhaps Google is lying in the TOS, because it is clearly stated in the Business and Education TOS