Re: [LUG] Anyone know about iPads?

I've just deployed near enough 200 iPads in a school, I'm hoping these aren't the ones I've just done!

I had to go to some Apple Education event at the Eden Project earlier this year. I did get the mick taken out of me for having the only Android device in there by an official Apple Employee.

They did admit that education was not on their radar until iOS 5 and that it is a hack for the moment. With the new iOS 8, expected soon, they said they have tighter integration with the underlying OS, but thats something to wait and see for.

As long as the school have "supervised" and managed the devices before handing them out the students they should be fine to reset them and start all over. If they haven't then they have a long call with Apple ahead of them.

Apple's AppleID age limit is 13 but I was told at the event there are special T+Cs for underage users which requires parental permission. But I believe the school have to sign up to these terms.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 08/09/14 19:15, bad apple wrote:

On 08/09/14 18:58, Tom wrote:

Just wondering as my daughters school got 200 of them for the kids and
180 of them borked on setup?
Tom te tom te tom

If I remember rightly, Apple offer a special service for educational
channels where they will kind of wall-off a certain little corner of
their ecosystem to the customers preferences, so iTunes can't be used by
children to buy offensive content, etc: certain apps can be also
pre-installed, and so on. It's effectively like building a custom image
for deploying to PCs, except it's more about limiting access to certain
things in this case. Think of the children, and all that.

Anyway, by the sounds of it Apple - or some crappy third party
subcontractor - royally screwed up setting up this bunch apparently. 20
out of 200 is not a good success rate...

I am rather against this increasing trend of brainwashing kids into
familiarity with expensive and stupid gadgets in the name of education:
for the love of god, instead of buying them stupid Apple toys why not
spend half the money on getting them all white box general purpose
computers/netbooks running a general purpose operating system
(preferably Linux, obviously)? And then, oh I don't know, actually
teaching them something? The Raspberry Pi team must see things like that
and die a little inside. They're probably wondering why they even bothered.

Regards

The kids basically had to set up an AppleID if they didn't have one (and most were under whatever age limit that has) and then it all went pear shaped and prevented them adding the ID once created and so they couldn't download all the apps from the appstore. Its her first year so I don't feel I can take the piss out of the IT there just yet!
The perse school I mentioned in the other thread have some Pi stuff but I'll wait till my daughters ipad is working before checking that out - I really cant be bothered booting into windows to find out....
Tom te tom te tom

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