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Apple to let students test iPad tablets

Published: 22 Jun 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: Business

Apple Inc will lend tablets to children in 20 schools to help Thailand test the effectiveness of learning through tablets.

The move is part of its corporate social responsibility programmes.

The Office of the Basic Education Commission (Obec) will select 20 schools to participate in the project.

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If Thailand goes with Apple, they will be buying a system controlled, owned and dependent on Apple. And it would be bringing its children into that commercial deal. With an open-source based system, Thailand will be able to develop, control and secure the whole ecosystem independently as a nation, rather than through a foreign company.

Apple’s revenue model is based on closed and proprietary products and controlling their entire ecosystem, from hardware and software to content and app delivery. By contrast, Google's Android platform is open-source, and can be used for free by any manufacturer, developer, content provider or end-user.

Apple's iPad is currently the "Ferrari of tablets", but what good is a Ferrari in a rice-field?
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