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Greg Thompson
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Technology Operations Director for Greenfield-Central Community School Corporation. Lost a son to Leukemia.
@film_girl @jsnell @nickheer No Tax for K-12 Public School Corporation (Federal or State) We always take our residual value and roll it into the next lease. As a bonus many companies are now working with us to have community buyback programs where we sell our used iPads to the local community.
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That's the thing, it's really not double the budget when you look at Chromebook prices and the residual value after our lease. We still make money on selling back iPad 7th gen devices.
That's the thing, it's really not double the budget when you look at Chromebook prices and the residual value after our lease. We still make money on selling back iPad 7th gen devices.
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5. There will be resale value for the Neo after 4 years of use, Chromebooks are junk after 2 years.
6. We will absolutely transition to these from our iPads at Grades 7-12.
5. There will be resale value for the Neo after 4 years of use, Chromebooks are junk after 2 years.
6. We will absolutely transition to these from our iPads at Grades 7-12.
@film_girl @jsnell @nickheer A couple things from a Tech Director for a K-12 School Corporation.
1. Chromebooks are getting more expensive by the day with the RAM Shortage.
2. The screen on the Neo Destroys any Chromebook I have ever seen.
3. Yes Jamf is Expensive, but we have already invested and set up that architecture for our 1:1 iPads.
4. Yes, Most schools buy "cheap" Chromebooks, but you get what you pay for. $350 for a device that falls apart in a year or 2.
1. Chromebooks are getting more expensive by the day with the RAM Shortage.
2. The screen on the Neo Destroys any Chromebook I have ever seen.
3. Yes Jamf is Expensive, but we have already invested and set up that architecture for our 1:1 iPads.
4. Yes, Most schools buy "cheap" Chromebooks, but you get what you pay for. $350 for a device that falls apart in a year or 2.
@stroughtonsmith Evidently File your Feedback Early so it can be fixed means before the end of WWDC week 😂
And I have a spitball theory who wrote the anonymous tipster email to Apple. Here’s an MD5 hash of my spitball, for future reference, in case someone else names them first:
72ecce571403600a27e986d40c0155b2
@stroughtonsmith Agree completely! It's sad as I believe Jobs 's Apple had the vision of what iPad could become. I think back to the "Whats a computer" commercial. It really could have become THE device that everyone uses, Portable Tablet Touch screen when it needs to be, Powerful Mac like device when it needs to be etc. They were always to consumed with not cutting into the mac margins and trying to sell you a mac AND an iPad instead of focusing on making the best product and iPad could be.
Joe RossignolWith this service program now over, it is no longer guaranteed that customers with affected MacBook butterfly keyboards will be able to receive a free repair from Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider.
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/19/apple-ends-mac-butterfly-keyboard-service-program/
David Smith@stroughtonsmith I believe there are 3 different resource limits (which have all existed since widgets started, but some got stricter in iOS18).
1) a 30MB memory limit while refreshing the widget
2) an archive size limit on the complexity of the swiftui view
3) an image resolution limit
2&3 seem to vary based on device/size and I believe are not specifically documented. Generally for #3 the limit seems roughly the size of a widget’s pixel bounds. So you have to resize down based on family.