O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

They were for them before they were against them.

mid island mike

If they take back all the IPads, won't
someone want all the kickbacks returned?

Those must be some wowy zowy IPads at $700 a pop. One would think that buying in thousands of units and through an educational infrastructure would result in a lower, rather than higher retail price. Even the best IPad costs under $500 at my local Staples or Future Shop - where for example, you can buy software at roughly half price if purchased by a bona fide student or teacher.

How is it that every gov't agency gets screwed when they go shopping? Especially on bulk purchases. Witness the $2,500 a copy office chairs that T.O. just purchased. How is it that a person who is likely pretty savvy when they make a personal purchase, can't make a similar deal on behalf of the taxpayer for whom he/she works?

Some of these people should lose their jobs.

But what about the free BamBam phones?

Seems like just yesterday the schools were crying they did not have enough money for textbooks. Oh well, at least we don"t have to worry about Apple stocks falling with that type of government support.

What moron was responsible for this idea? I'll never own an iPad as they're overpriced and a closed system. The tablets I've bought are less than $200 and Android based so I can write code for them in Java. Far more useful than an iPad IMHO.

Can't imagine students doing much learning using iPads as they'd just use them for messaging and viewing youtube videos. If one wanted a tablet to have any educational value, the school should have used Android tablets that had nothing on them except for the OS and a Java development system to run on a PC. That way, they'd have to learn how to code to use the tablets. Of course, as soon as the first student created a downloader for the tablets it would spread among the rest of them so the educational benefits would be of limited extent. Programming tablets is the only educational value I can see in using them. If I was a student who was given a free iPad, I'd probably "lose" it in a couple of hours myself.

WRT peterj's TO chair story, it's a case of politicians believing they are far more entitled that the remainder of the population. A perfectly comfortable chair can be purchased for $200. My most expensive chair purchase was a Stressless recliner for $2500 but, given how easy it is to fall asleep in it, it's the last type of chair that should be present in a work environment. Maybe it's time to teach the TO politicians a lesson by giving them metal stackable chairs to use for the next decade.