Google is transforming public education with low-cost laptops and free apps
A couple personal anecdotes related to this: I volunteer at a school to help maintain around 300 iPads and ~20 iMacs. It&#x27;s awful. (I am a longtime Mac user at home BTW). The management tools around updating the iPads, installing apps, and configuring users are all terrible, unreliable and old. It leads to teacher frustration and less use of the equipment in the classroom. The only thing worse are the windows computers, which are in such bad shape that they just stopped using them.<p>An example: To install an app for all students on the iPads, we need to plug them all in to a big USB hub, then connect a Mac with management software to it and run a sync procedure. It fails on about 10% of the devices, so we run it again. Each run takes several minutes. There are over-the-air methods for doing this, but they&#x27;re corporate solutions not provided by Apple and are pretty expensive.<p>So given all that, if ChromeBooks promise per-user customization and document storage with much simpler administration, it&#x27;s no wonder they&#x27;re taking over.