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This is almost 100% about Pearson. The article even has this gem buried toward the end: Although the threatened legal action applies to Apple and Pearson, the

This is almost 100% about Pearson. The article even has this gem buried toward the end: Although the threatened legal action applies to Apple and Pearson, the district also sent letters Tuesday to two other companies: Lenovo, a device maker, and Arey Jones, a computer distributor. These companies also have included the Pearson product on some devices purchased by L.A. Unified. So, they had problems with non-Apple devices as well? There's also this statement: Pearson could offer only a partial curriculum during the first year of the license, which was permitted under the agreement. Teachers and principals never widely embraced the product. Okay, so the product they bought wasn't embraced. And there aren't any real reasons given other than a vague: “Any given class typically experiences one problem or more daily." What does that even mean?

pjc50 11y ago
“Any given class typically experiences one problem or more daily." It means there is a complex system that isn't reliable enough for its target usage and the end users have no way of pressuring for its improvement.
- 4927a15fe7b0c35 11y ago
  My issue with the statement is two fold: 1) "Any given" really isn't the same as "every". It's vague and ambiguous, and generally means it happens often, but is not a useful measure of incidence. 2) A deployment of this number of devices + custom software will have problems, that has to be accepted. One problem, without knowing what it is, really isn't enough to say the thing is a failure. In fact, it's not even close. Is the problem that someone has to restart their iPad? That the content freezes? The content is inaccessible? The content is incomplete? The Wi-Fi goes down? The teacher's materials aren't working? We really have no idea, and that kind of comment in this kind of story is adversarial and unnecessary.
fit2rule 11y ago
Its not entirely almost 100% not about Apple. There's a small percentage of the complaint which refers to the hassle that the school infrastructures need to go through in order to update the curriculum - Apple have a finger in that pie, do not forget.

pjc50 11y ago

“Any given class typically experiences one problem or more daily." It means there is a complex system that isn't reliable enough for its target usage and the end users have no way of pressuring for its improvement.

4927a15fe7b0c35 11y ago
My issue with the statement is two fold: 1) "Any given" really isn't the same as "every". It's vague and ambiguous, and generally means it happens often, but is not a useful measure of incidence. 2) A deployment of this number of devices + custom software will have problems, that has to be accepted. One problem, without knowing what it is, really isn't enough to say the thing is a failure. In fact, it's not even close. Is the problem that someone has to restart their iPad? That the content freezes? The content is inaccessible? The content is incomplete? The Wi-Fi goes down? The teacher's materials aren't working? We really have no idea, and that kind of comment in this kind of story is adversarial and unnecessary.

fit2rule 11y ago

Its not entirely almost 100% not about Apple. There's a small percentage of the complaint which refers to the hassle that the school infrastructures need to go through in order to update the curriculum - Apple have a finger in that pie, do not forget.