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Re: [LUG] Anyone know about iPads?

 

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

When it comes to all sorts of things with Apple where you are in the
world appears to matter a lot.

> for deploying to PCs, except it's more about limiting access to certain
> things in this case. Think of the children, and all that.

The whole "app store" concept does not  make much sense in any kind of
"enterprise" environment. But the Ultra Personal Computer is the basic
paradigm here.




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