Apple, in it's education event, stressed the importance of education and how Apple helps in making it better. One of the small announcements were of iTunes U having it's own individual app now.
The major announcement was of 'Textbooks for the iPad'. Apple believes that their new interactive textbooks that are better than traditional paper textbooks and I would agree in the case that the iPad is extremely light weight and well it doesn't wear out like a normal book would. The major attraction of the interactive textbooks is the interactive part which stresses on videos and 3D models rather the static 2D pictures found in paper books.
These are priced below $15 which might be great instead of buying books for $60-$100. But the chances of a high school student getting an iPad is less likely to happen than that of a college student. Apple in it's presentation aimed totally at high school kids whereas I believe that their aim should have been more towards showing it's use in colleges. As the college fees are already high, adding an iPad to the materials is more imaginable than a high school school student getting a $500 iPad.
Even if the school lends the iPads to their students for 4 years, there are chances of the school not allowing the kid to take the iPad back home which makes it meaningless or if they do take it home there is a high risk of damage.
Apple's aim can result in success only if Apple can sell a couple more billion iPads.
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