2013-01-01, 02:40 PM
Satellite Wrote:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...roken.html
Can't decide on what's the worst part here. Is it:
The fact that the school buys one of the most fragile brands in the market for KIDS.
or
The fact that the school pays overprice for Apple products and the taxpayers have to pay for the costs. Which means those who boycott Apple would still have to pay for their products.
The government uses taxpayers' money in many ways which some of those taxpayers object to. Ever hear of Obamacare? Or any recent war? Seriously, buying Apple products when some taxpayers boycott them is hardly a "worst part" of anything.
As for why they bought "one of the most fragile brands" - well, they didn't know that, they didn't do research. They go by the same time-tested rule I knew as "no manager ever got fired for buying IBM."
If they'd bought some no-name Chinese tablets and half of those broke (as they would have, these are children after all), people would be all "Who's the idiot who decided to skimp and get cheapo junk? If you'd gotten genuine Apples this wouldn't have happened!"
But yeah, the stupid thing is getting tablets for schoolkids. Besides being too fragile, they're also far too toy-like. Should have given them desktops for home, if they absolutely had to bring them into the information age.