See this :
http://www.coursesmart.com/go/ipad/index.html
If this was an apple exclusive, as ATT enjoys
with the iPhone, then It would be hard for
anyone else to get into the tablet game. Win 7
based tablets, if sold cheaply enough, are
better for students than the Ipad is in it's
current form, and post secondary student
adoption is the path(in my opinion, the only
path) to tablet success.
Ask me how I know, as the saying goes. I know,
because I save roughly 40% on my texts every
semester utilizing the afore-linked company. On
average, I only have 20% of my texts in school
not available from that company. At this rate,
the iPad, even if solely used as a textbook
replacement, pays for itself in a few
semesters. If the advertising makes it to
campuses, I'd expect 50% of the students to
have them within 1-2 years. I'd expect an iPad
optimized version of Blackboard to follow.
with 20 million post-secondary students at any
given time and 5 million new ones cycling in
each year, it's a market that can make or break
the iPad, but I'm going to lean towards Make...
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