Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead
Prox@lemmy.world 1 week agoThis - like most problems we’ve created in the US - comes down to money. Google will often donate/grant Chromebooks to schools in order to create future addicts customers. It would cost schools a lot more to do what’s right (or at least better) for their students, so they don’t do that thing.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
yup, it’s the same playbook Apple had in the 80’s and 90’s. Get them into schools and get everyone used to their ecosystem so they would buy their products after graduating. Bill Gates did the same thing in the 90’s to outfit computer labs in schools with a bunch of Dell computers.