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On 8 Sep 2014, at 20:17, 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 > err no - talk to apple the device if registered that way will lock themselves to those accounts - forever. If i recall you need to have an domain controller (apples samba ) - and the software from apple to have those iPads sync only with that server for ID’s etc. > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq