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robinhoodyesterday at 2:44 PM5 repliesview on HN

Have you seen classes in universities? In schools? My daughter is in secondary school - they all have mandatory iPads.


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ChrisMarshallNYyesterday at 2:50 PM

Not in some time (retired). I have seen lots of iPads in medical facilities. In fact, just this morning, I was looking at one, with a badly-designed app for checking in patients.

Many of the patients are older folks. They tend to press long and hard on the big buttons.

A sensible app developer traps tap and long-touch, and sends them both to the same handler. This developer only catches the tap event, and ignores long-touch. The attendant was getting grumpy, because she had to keep telling patients "tap 'gently'."

It's just me, I know, but I get salty, when I see this kind of careless UI design (it was the app's fault -not the iPad's). I know that the medical group paid big bucks for the app.

snowwrestleryesterday at 2:47 PM

My local school district is 100% Chromebooks, first issued in 4th grade and through high school.

jimmyddddyesterday at 3:04 PM

Our middle schools started out with iPads. But they switched to Chromebooks because they were a lot more useful. Also, apparently, middle school boys aren't that good at caring for iPads. :-)

organsnyderyesterday at 2:46 PM

My kids' district gives them iPads in middle school (5th through 8th) and MacBook Airs in high school.

DaSHackayesterday at 2:50 PM

My old Highschool, as well as many other schools I've seen since, mandate Chromebooks.

I think it tends to be the more well-off schools with the iPads, the chromebooks are definitely a lot cheaper over the long run for the district.