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You mean like how google is inserting chromebooks into education for a loss, to one day raise prices at the detriment of education facilities who bought into th

You mean like how google is inserting chromebooks into education for a loss, to one day raise prices at the detriment of education facilities who bought into the google classroom offering. Color me surprised /s

Broken_Hippo 4y ago
In the 2000s, my sister had to buy an apple computer or laptop because the college required it for education students. This is a result of apple donating computers to school in the 80's. Google, really, is just following other people's example.
- yardie 4y ago
  Apple never donated computers to schools. There are thousands of them. The company would go bankrupt in no time. What they did have is a company like MECC who wrote a lot of great Edtech software for Apple and Mac computers. That relationship with education and creators helped carry them out of the pre-bankruptcy days. School districts always had a budget in mind and traditional Apple would try and meet it. Now, they don’t even try. Just knock $100 off and call it the education edition is about as far as they are willing to extend.
  - somethingwitty1 4y ago
    My school had donated Apple computers. Edit: And they apparently are even today: https://www.apple.com/connectED/index.html https://www.apple.com/connectED/index.html "We’ve donated an iPad to every student, a Mac and iPad to every teacher, and an Apple TV to every classroom."
    - daniel_reetz 4y ago
      Mine, too. In a rural area in the Midwest in the 80s. http://hackeducation.com/2015/02/25/kids-cant-wait-apple http://hackeducation.com/2015/02/25/kids-cant-wait-apple
  - Broken_Hippo 4y ago
    Apple never donated computers to schools. A quick google search will give you the "kids can't wait" program. This program allowed donated computers to go to 9000 California schools. The others may have been discounted, sure, but they did donate and it still means that Google is just following in the footsteps of those before them. I'll also note that $100 off of a current computer isn't as bad as it sounds, considering the low starting price of a good-enough-for-internet-and-school machine. I had green letters on a black screen back in the 80s, giving way to not-so-refined pixel art a few years later, all for a computer that cost more than they do now before you even adjust for inflation. Computers simply aren't the same sort of cost they were back then (they still cost, but the machinery isn't as big of an expense)
cube00 4y ago
They don't even have to raise prices. Keeping a generation locked into Google products could turn them into the Microsoft of the next generation of office workers.

Broken_Hippo 4y ago

In the 2000s, my sister had to buy an apple computer or laptop because the college required it for education students. This is a result of apple donating computers to school in the 80's. Google, really, is just following other people's example.

yardie 4y ago
Apple never donated computers to schools. There are thousands of them. The company would go bankrupt in no time. What they did have is a company like MECC who wrote a lot of great Edtech software for Apple and Mac computers. That relationship with education and creators helped carry them out of the pre-bankruptcy days. School districts always had a budget in mind and traditional Apple would try and meet it. Now, they don’t even try. Just knock $100 off and call it the education edition is about as far as they are willing to extend.
- somethingwitty1 4y ago
  My school had donated Apple computers. Edit: And they apparently are even today: https://www.apple.com/connectED/index.html https://www.apple.com/connectED/index.html "We’ve donated an iPad to every student, a Mac and iPad to every teacher, and an Apple TV to every classroom."
  - daniel_reetz 4y ago
    Mine, too. In a rural area in the Midwest in the 80s. http://hackeducation.com/2015/02/25/kids-cant-wait-apple http://hackeducation.com/2015/02/25/kids-cant-wait-apple
- Broken_Hippo 4y ago
  Apple never donated computers to schools. A quick google search will give you the "kids can't wait" program. This program allowed donated computers to go to 9000 California schools. The others may have been discounted, sure, but they did donate and it still means that Google is just following in the footsteps of those before them. I'll also note that $100 off of a current computer isn't as bad as it sounds, considering the low starting price of a good-enough-for-internet-and-school machine. I had green letters on a black screen back in the 80s, giving way to not-so-refined pixel art a few years later, all for a computer that cost more than they do now before you even adjust for inflation. Computers simply aren't the same sort of cost they were back then (they still cost, but the machinery isn't as big of an expense)

cube00 4y ago

They don't even have to raise prices. Keeping a generation locked into Google products could turn them into the Microsoft of the next generation of office workers.