The iPad goes to school
If you were wondering why the iPad remains somewhat hard to find, you can blame it on American education. Many schools, including the Illinois Institute of Technology, are using the iPad to lure students.
ITT, for example, will give iPads to all 600 of its incoming freshman when school starts in the fall.
One reason for IIT’s largesse, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, is that “the school has started some of the nation’s first courses in mobile application development.”
Giving away iPads to students shouldn’t be a surprise. The Apple iPod was a popular give-away too, as school’s justified these gifts by saying professors would create audio versions of their lectures for downloading.
Who knows how many kids downloaded these lectures, but isn’t it nice that our higher institutions of learning make it easy to skip class so students can stay hunkered down in the dorm and play with their new gizmos?
This item first appeared on today’s App Industry Roundup at Appolicious.com.
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