Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Apple Announces January 19 “Education Event” in New York

From AllThingsD - Kafka 
Apple is ready to take on text books in iTunes -- now your children may really need an iPad of their own. Hopefully Apple will unveil a $299 version of the iPad.

Read More http://allthingsd.com/20120111/apple-announces-january-19-education-event-in-new-york/
Sources close to the company tell AllThingsD that the event will involve an initiative related to iBooks in education, presumably with some sort of tie-in to iTunes U.
Details beyond that are slim, though we’re told that this is an effort Jobs had been involved with in the months prior to his death. That could mean that it’s the textbooks-on-iPads plan that Jobs famously discussed with biographer Walter Isaacson. Fox’s Clayton Morris is hearing something similar.
The textbook market is certainly ripe for digital disruption, but the players that have emerged so far are pumping in a lot of cash with little to show for it.

No comments:

Post a Comment