Once you abstract your data and apps from the hardware, the hardware largely stops mattering.
In the final analysis, I think that the long-term effect of tablets will be that they forced laptops to get better. We have seen a lot of fatigue-related screen damage - that is, damage not caused by a catastrophic accident but rather just repeated put-downs in a schoolbag. We’ve been using 9.7” iPad Pro hardware in this cycle and, while the hardware remains fast and capable, I have not been very pleased with durability. Every time I have to do it, it takes at least three hours of experimentation to get something that mostly works.
This process has never been properly documented and it seems to change freely with iOS versions. The worst issue by far in iOS sysadmin is backup and restore of supervised devices. Make no mistake: iTunes U is a dying service and it would be more honest and respectable of Apple just to announce the date on which it will be put out of its misery. Whatever learning platform a school uses is a vital part of the work of the school and, if it’s not evolving, it’s dying. At the time of writing, iTunes U still does not support basic iOS multitasking features that were introduced in iOS 9 - four releases ago. The problem with Apple’s iOS education offerings that started to really make me wonder what the future held came when I realised that iTunes U was clearly just being left to die a slow death. On Switching from iPad to Chromebook in School
0 kommentar(er)
