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0 pointsrunjake2mo ago0 comments

No, we really care about durability. The amount of damage is crazy. So many units are damaged that it would be cost-prohibitive to dispose and replace them.

The screenshot in that Reddit post more or less looks like ours. Schools generally repair these, if they have the technicians. And everyone is cannibalizing parts out of last generation models. It's like a Jawa shop.

> Apple can only compete if they provide bulk deals which bring the overall cost in line with chromebooks.

I've never seen, nor heard of Apple providing competitive prices, even in quantities of ~10,000 units. They haven't even gotten close and they've largely given up on the idea of Macs as a standard K12 school device. ~$250 iPads are still strong in low primary grades and special education, though.

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mghackerlady2mo ago

I worked in my High Schools repair room in Junior year, and the Jawa shop is an apt description haha

joezydeco2mo ago

Can confirm Apple gave up on education. If they really cared you'd be able to have multiple accounts/profiles on iPad, and that's still not a thing that exists.

I did a major PTA fundraiser to buy iPads for our classrooms and they were pretty much never used because of this.

thewebguyd2mo ago

> you'd be able to have multiple accounts/profiles on iPad, and that's still not a thing that exists.

It does exist, it just requires the iPad to be managed via MDM, which most schools would have (and should implement if they don't have it). JamF, Mosyle, Business Essentials, InTune and probably any other MDM can put an iPad into shared iPad mode with multiple profiles.

k3nx2mo ago

Have you seen the classroom app? It allows for multiple profiles on an iPad. I've never used it, so I don't know how well it works.

https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/shared-ipad-overv...

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