UK to give iPads to all incoming freshmen this fall

Source: Kentucky.com -- Education

Article note: "UK to spend 1.5 million of students' tuition dollars to lock our freshmen into Apple's roach-motel ecosystem." It could be worse on the privacy invasion front but ...really? iPads? At least the press release says they're including "an Apple Smart Keyboard and an Apple Pencil" so it isn't _purely_ a consumption device, even if it isn't quite a full function computer.

All incoming University of Kentucky freshmen will be given an iPad as part of a partnership with the Apple corporation, officials announced Tuesday. “This is all about student success,” said … Click to Continue »

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