Apple wants to sell more iPads to schools, but Google already owns the education market

Apple wants to sell more iPads to schools, but Google already owns the education market

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https://www.recode.net/2018/3/27/17169624/apple-ipad-google-education-event-chromebooks-market

At its education event in Chicago today, Apple unveiled a new version of its iPad tablet, along with new software aimed at students and teachers. The event pitched the iPad — $299 for the education market, $329 for everyone else — to educators. But in the U.S., the education market has mostly opted for Google Chromebooks over the past several years.

Specifically, Chromebooks represented about 60 percent of mobile device shipments into U.S. K-12 schools in the fourth quarter of last year, according to Futuresource Consulting. Apple’s iOS devices garnered about 11 percent of the market and Macs about 4 percent.