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My kids have school-issued iPads and type reports with the on-screen keyboard filling half the screen. They're totally used to it. They seem to prefer the iPad

My kids have school-issued iPads and type reports with the on-screen keyboard filling half the screen. They're totally used to it. They seem to prefer the iPad to using a chromebook.

Someone1234 9y ago
> kids have school-issued iPads [..] They seem to prefer the iPad to using a chromebook. So they have school issued Chromebooks too? Or is that just supposition?
kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
iPad === status++. Of course they're going to prefer it regardless of rational merits either way.
- deleted 9y ago
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- dagw 9y ago
  iPad === status++ Still? Maybe it's because I live in a nice upper middle class area and have nice upper middle class friends, but I don't think anybody, at any age, sees the iPad as a status symbol.
  - kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
    Conduct an experiment and see how your upper middle class kids respond when their iWant is replaced with a downmarket Google product.
beenBoutIT 9y ago
Understand that the kids with Chromebooks are learning how to use Linux while they improve their typing skills.
- robterrell 9y ago
  ...they are learning how to use Linux? Not one bit. I bought my kids cheap low-end chromebooks, and they also get chromebooks issued to them during certain classes. There's zero linux learning going on there. They can't go into developer mode. There's no more linux learning there than there is BSD learning on an iPad. They are only learning the Google Docs ecosystem. It's awesome if indoctrination in software ecosystem lock-in is your thing. "But let the kids go with their preference so they can be dumb wage slaves" -- Nice. Thanks for the implication that I'm a bad parent for letting them complete their schoolwork on the iPad as they are required by their teachers.
  - beenBoutIT 9y ago
    *Chromebooks with Developer Mode https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/poking-around-your-chrome-os-device https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/poking-around-your-chro... iOS has nothing like this.
    - kylec 9y ago
      It's been a while since I was a student, but assuming that schools' attitude towards technology is still the same you'd probably get detention and your school-issued Chromebook confiscated if you tried to enable developer mode.
    - robterrell 9y ago
      developer mode is locked out of school chromebooks. for obvious reasons.
      - beenBoutIT 9y ago
        this is only going to make kids want developer mode more, even if obtaining it requires dropping $200 on a personal chromebook.
        volkl48 9y ago

My kids have school-issued iPads and type reports with the on-screen keyboard filling half the screen. They're totally used to it. They seem to prefer the iPad to using a chromebook.

Someone1234 9y ago

> kids have school-issued iPads [..] They seem to prefer the iPad to using a chromebook. So they have school issued Chromebooks too? Or is that just supposition?

kevin_thibedeau 9y ago

iPad === status++. Of course they're going to prefer it regardless of rational merits either way.

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dagw 9y ago
iPad === status++ Still? Maybe it's because I live in a nice upper middle class area and have nice upper middle class friends, but I don't think anybody, at any age, sees the iPad as a status symbol.
- kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
  Conduct an experiment and see how your upper middle class kids respond when their iWant is replaced with a downmarket Google product.

beenBoutIT 9y ago

Understand that the kids with Chromebooks are learning how to use Linux while they improve their typing skills.

robterrell 9y ago
...they are learning how to use Linux? Not one bit. I bought my kids cheap low-end chromebooks, and they also get chromebooks issued to them during certain classes. There's zero linux learning going on there. They can't go into developer mode. There's no more linux learning there than there is BSD learning on an iPad. They are only learning the Google Docs ecosystem. It's awesome if indoctrination in software ecosystem lock-in is your thing. "But let the kids go with their preference so they can be dumb wage slaves" -- Nice. Thanks for the implication that I'm a bad parent for letting them complete their schoolwork on the iPad as they are required by their teachers.
- beenBoutIT 9y ago
  *Chromebooks with Developer Mode https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/poking-around-your-chrome-os-device https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/poking-around-your-chro... iOS has nothing like this.
  - kylec 9y ago
    It's been a while since I was a student, but assuming that schools' attitude towards technology is still the same you'd probably get detention and your school-issued Chromebook confiscated if you tried to enable developer mode.
  - robterrell 9y ago
    developer mode is locked out of school chromebooks. for obvious reasons.
    - beenBoutIT 9y ago
      this is only going to make kids want developer mode more, even if obtaining it requires dropping $200 on a personal chromebook.
      - volkl48 9y ago