Next Thursday’s Apple event in New York is going to feature something related to education. But it’s not a special tablet for students or any other kind of hardware, the New York Times reports. So what is it?
The January 19 event at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is related to digital textbooks: Apple may announce digital textbooks written by “prominent textbook writers”. The rumour echoes Steve Jobs‘s thoughts on the matter published in his biography, in which he discussed how he wanted to “transform” that market like he did for music or phones.
I’m excited to see what they would unveil, because this may be the realisation of Steve Jobs’s last vision. [NYT]
Wing
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 3:18 PMmy bet is this would be about education volume licensing on iPad and Mac OS Apps.
Dave
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 3:32 PMI can see it is going to be about the major publishers for college and university textbooks jumping on board. I get really annoyed forking about $400 per semester on lumpy physical textbooks rather than a soft copy!
Ben H
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 3:45 PMAdelaide uni has been trialling ipads w/ digital textbooks for some time. By all accounts it’s been very successful.
JNYBLK
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 4:12 PMThis was my guess earlier this week
Please read my post
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/01/apple-event-announced-for-next-thursday/
dfg
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 4:16 PMI recon its going to be a product to help you eat apples better
steve
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 4:26 PMA fleshlight resembling Mr. Jobs’ face
Franz
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 6:16 PMThis is just the start.
In the future, your son or daughter won’t be choosing between a private school or public school, they’ll have to choose between apple and google, since they’ll run the education system.
RD
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 8:17 PM“because this may be the realisation of Steve Jobs’s last vision”
Ummm no…Steve made sure that Apple’s path was planned out at least 5 years in advance. We’ll be seeing his ‘vision’ for sometime yet.
H
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 8:31 AMAnd yay prophet Steve had a vision and it was so. Gah
Nick
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 9:15 PMWhatever they’re announcing… I hope it’s relevant to Australian education. Particularly University.
anthome
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 12:06 AMIf only Apple invested in eInk technology. I hate reading on backlit screens but eInk would be perfect.
Phoenix
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 8:40 AMI can imagine them doing their own version of the LiveScribe pen, but it’s not going to be so amazing. It’s probably going to be digital textbook licensing like a lot of people seem to think.
If it IS, then I will personally tear Apple a new one if they use a proprietary format that won’t work on Android. Somehow though, even without Steve Jobbs covering for them and making them not suck like he did so many years ago, I doubt they’d do anything so retarded.
Goober
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 12:44 PMTV is his last vision. Textbooks are second last