Ondrej Holzman Not long ago, the unequal battle between Apple and Google in the school classrooms was evened out, and what's more, the giant from Menlo Park even surpassed its eternal juice. In the last quarter, more Chromebooks than iPads were sold to schools for the first time in history. Further evidence of the current weakening of sales of the apple tablet.
In the third quarter, Google sold 715 low-cost Chromebooks to US schools, while Apple sold 500 iPads in the same period, IDC, a market research company, calculated. Chromebooks, which appeal to users mainly because of their low price, have climbed from zero to more than a quarter of the school market share in two years.
Schools and educational institutions are in great competition among leading technology firms, as they represent huge financial potential. Apple opened up this years-conserved market with the first iPad four years ago and has dominated it ever since, now it's catching up strongly with Chromebooks, which are also being turned to by schools as a cheaper alternative. In addition to iPads and Chromebooks, we must of course also mention Windows devices, but they had a head start decades ago and are gradually losing.
“Chromebooks are really taking off. Their growth is a major issue for Apple's iPad," he said Financial Times Rajani Singh, Senior Research Analyst at IDC. While iPads are relatively versatile devices thanks to their touchscreens, some will prefer Chromebooks because of the physical keyboard present. “As the average age of students increases, the need for a keyboard is very important,” adds Singh.
Chromebooks are supplied to schools by Samsung, HP, Dell and Acer, and they appeal to educational institutions with ease of device management and lower price. The cheapest models sell for $199, while last year's iPad Air costs $379 even with a special discount. Apple maintains its lead over Google in schools only if we include MacBooks (see the attached graph), which are doing well, along with iOS devices.
Apple continues to have a privileged position in schools with tablets, where more than 75 educational applications in the App Store, as well as the ability to easily create courses in iTunes U and create your own textbooks, are key. However, Google has already launched a special educational section in the Google Play store, and the applications present here can be used both on Android tablets and Chromebooks.
I wouldn't see it as a major problem with Apple, maybe even Apple could release a cheap laptop with everything. But I see a much bigger problem with Microsoft, which may soon end up on the dustbin of history with its unrecognized Windows.
Uneaten windows? I can run Windows 8 just fine on a ten-year-old computer and it doesn't force me to upgrade hardware. For ios, the last released version for a given device (iphone, ipad) slows down the device so much that I have to upgrade (from my own experience - iphone 4, iphone 4s, ipad 3). In addition, it forces you to upgrade iOS every time you restore.
I run it too, but it's bugged and I wait half an hour before it starts up and I can work with it at all, not to mention the graphics, which are worse than Windows XP, where are the times when 128 MB of RAM was enough to run Windows, eights are on tom bled min. 2 gb and with a design from the year once or twice, I don't understand who likes those tiles on the desktop? There are no new functions either, it just continues to sell the 20-year-old Windows NT 4.0 technology.
Google is an innovative company and is constantly on the rise. ChromeOS is brilliant for what you need it for...people have sobered up from tablets, why carry only a bloated phone with you? And then I still buy unnecessary cases with a keyboard and so on. so we get to the beginning of laptops. And chromeOS is brilliant for net and software work, because the tablet is not for any work. And not everyone can spend 1000e on Aira.
It depends on what you call work... if you are an office shovel and need a big keyboard and a 21″ screen, then this is not really a tablet for you, as a businessman, I don't want to pull out some chrome/nickel/steelbook for a meeting. In peace, a tablet is enough for me... I have an ipad, but I think a colleague's Yoga tablet is also good. It's faster, more compact, more elegant... an external keyboard and an origami workstation on the plane... but that's probably not what ANTON wanted to hear, right?
I would like to point out to the shopkeeper (probably with casseroles) that there is nothing more representative than pulling out a tablet at a meeting and starting to tap something on the display. Several of these guys come to our company every month and it's a real experience. The tablet is ideal for content consumption at home, it's a first-class embarrassment at a business meeting.
Really? Hats off, on the server about the most valuable IT company and in 2014, an interesting idea, a tablet for meetings awkward... I conduct business meetings in the field of design and construction. Therefore, if I do not make mistakes, but show the appearance, propose solutions and know how to use applications, a tablet is an ideal device and very often these possibilities are appreciated by customers. Of course, I won't influence if the Jews come to you, but I rate your comment as a nuisance. I wish you much success in consuming the content.
This makes me wonder what Apple's value has to do with the purpose of the devices it sells. With an iPad at a meeting, you might look like a person who doesn't have a MacBook Air, especially during a fight with a kind of origami stand ala laptop. In any case, if you present your customers with solutions "in the field of design and construction" on a 10" tablet, I'd rather leave it without comment.
Objectively, reading is not everyone's strong point-origami if I need to write a larger text than a short e-mail (airplane). If you only understand the Ipad as a device for consuming content, then I don't understand why you engage in anything on this site that completely refutes that claim with its content. Of course, that doesn't disprove that the Ipad can be used for that consumption as well. I don't know how I look at a meeting, that I will leave it to our customers. However, I'm probably not in such a bad situation, because people with offers end up right at the gatehouse. I don't mind anyone with (not only) pots. And finally, according to your comment about whether or not it looks like I have something or rather I don't, I wish you more satisfaction in your personal and professional life.
Of course, the iPad can be used for other than just consumption, but it is suitable for this in certain situations and to a rather limited extent, and this must be understood above all. At a serious meeting, it can be used, for example, as a presentation tool wirelessly connected to a projector, e.g. for a presenter who needs to walk around - but this assumes a properly furnished room, which may not always be the case. It is a use away from the eyes of the audience, the attention is focused entirely on the iPad itself. However, I would certainly not show anything directly on the fingerprints of the iPad to the customer at the table, let alone hand it to them. It's really nothing great, and there's seriously nothing presentable about the iPad itself. However, if it suits you this way, I'm not going to pry into it and I don't really care, after all, it's your business card. I have no idea whether this website refutes something with its content or not, maybe just - Jablíčkář is made by a group of enthusiasts, students, so I wouldn't take everything here completely seriously. And finally, my comment about pot sellers was meant mainly with regard to your "office shovel", because in my experience sales representatives of all kinds and would-be-managers who have eaten up all the wisdom in the world express themselves this way stupidly.
Except that chromebooks are not tablets, but cool.. :DDD
And another thing, why didn't they sell so many iPads? Think about it.. People have enough of an iPad from three years ago, and they don't need to buy a new one.. Because it's still enough for this time.. And the other shit people have to change every year/2.. There it is.. Apple just didn't build those things that way , to change them in a short time, and there they made a mistake,.. At least according to everyone else.. So according to me, it's not a mistake.. They made losses for themselves, but also for others.. And that's how it should be.. And not to pack up money at the expense of the customer..
That is the first part of the truth... the second part is that Apple is trying with all its might with the help of new versions of iOS to change it so that its users also have to buy new hardware every 2 years. Given the recent release of iOS 8, it's likely that forced purchases of new iPads are already in the statistics...or conversely, sales of Chromebooks that schools bought after Apple gave them a salami cutting board from their iPads have kicked in.
No one is forcing you to download the update.. And it's true that there are a lot of bugs for the iPad Mini 1G, but they will fix it ;) If you wanted to write schools, then schools buy and have always bought crap.. It's normal that they support Microsoft when there are idiotic teachers in Slovakia who wanted to force Microsoft and their Excel/powerpoint/... I told them no thanks, I won't use a computer at school... I won't learn to do shit. And the first OS was not far from Microsoft.. (Another thing they teach in schools, and everyone puts up with it..). I don't want to go to any school until they teach the way it really is. The teachers at the school I went to had mistakes in their notes, which I had to warn them that it wasn't like that, and they sent me to hell (when they wrote the notes, and when they were written by a teacher who wasn't at the school, and another us she substituted, so she always nodded that I'm right..) This is your fucked-up Slovakia with 300 euro salaries, where if you don't have a university degree you're just a big brown shit.. That's exactly why Apple doesn't make things for the Slovak market, and they'll never get to Slovakia. Slovakia is a shitty, dull, poor country that will always have shit, and the citizens themselves will be shit, whether for the country or for the world. I don't even have a high school diploma, and as a 17-year-old I can earn more than the average salary in Slovakia with a high school. That's why I'm not interested in Slovak schools.. Maybe STU in BA is at some level, but what about the other schools? .. It often makes me cry that I am a Slovak.. Even that language makes me sick, knowing that if morons hadn't invented Slovak, I could possibly know English/Russian or another more useful language at the level of their citizens, that's how I know shit .. This is Slovakia! The one who is born there has no future, or he can learn in addition what he knows in 3 years in other countries..
Does this bother anyone? Sales of iPhones are starting, this quarter is expected to sell more than 70 million, next quarter more than 50 million. iPad sales are expected to exceed 20 million this quarter, and nearly 10 million next quarter. iPad Air 2 is excellent, last year's iPad Air and iPad mini with retina are still great. Mac sales are falling. The iMac 5K is an excellent bundle, both the MacBook Air and Retino Pro are great bundles. So why deal with some overtaking by chromebooks in schools in the USA? There are tons of programs, e-books, and e-books on iOS. Chromebooks are far behind in this. I rather see an attempt to save money, but no one knows if it will be worth it.
I wonder how long it will last. She is very clumsy at school. It was probably schools that for some reason got a taste of chrome books. They probably got contributions if they chose the right ones. Because in America...and something other than apple? I wonder. Take a moment to know what suffering is like.
And is Google perhaps Chinese?
And Chromebooks in schools instead of iPads? Chess kids are speculative, and on the iPad you can set the mode of one app or block some part of the screen.. Can this be done on chromebooks?.. Totally useless crap for schools, like it's still better than windows, but no better than ipads, even if they are 30% more expensive…