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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 > I know shiphay have a set of ipads that they loan out to schools in Torbay, between loans the tech can re-flash them before they go out again. There is also quite a lot of management software out there to control who gets access to which apps, and to deploy specific apps to individual ipads. So it should be possible for the school to re-flash or re-image them. Paul -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq