I know you guys are dying for some more iPad news.. Here is it.
Seton Hill University, a Catholic liberal arts school in Pennsylvania, has announced that starting this fall, every full-time student will get an iPad.
Students will be able to download their textbooks to their iPads from the iBook Store. In addition, iPads can be used as phones and for air and file sharing, as well as note-taking.
Fancy. Not sure where they get the idea that an iPad can be used as a phone, but we’ll let that slide for now.
Needless to say, if Apple manages to strike deals like this with a good number of schools, the iPad’s success will be fairly well assured. The company continues to gain ground with students extremely quickly, ensuring that schools all over the country are churning out Mac/iPhone/iPad-addicted graduates at a pretty heady clip.
via tuaw
Did they remove built-in the papal virus that subliminally plays Patty Duke scenes from “The Miracle Workers” over and over…
Well…
Seton Hall annual tuition & fees: $42,980 (Full Time).
At those prices they should throw in a BMW Mini color matched to your iPod and your iPhone, dinner with Steve Jobs, and an education.
@3 – This is Seton HILL, not Seton Hall. The tuition is $13K, room and board is ~$5K.
@2 – Yeah, it’s weird that they have that phone comment in there..
Oh wait, that’s per semester.. Dang. You’re right, it’s freaking insanely expensive.
Much like how the iPod touch works with Skype and now comes with a microphone built into the earbuds, I assume the iPad being a larger version will have the same functionality… Effectively making it a phone.
Would they allow for the inevitable iPad competitor, or is it an exclusive deal?
I’m also curious about the “notetaking” part, which is not what I’ve heard. Yes, you could use a separate app, but without multitasking you’d have to close your book to take a note from it. I predict paper notepads will continue to sell. In fact, if I was smart I’d come up with a notepad the exact same form factor as the iPad and a hard-shell folding case that fits both.
catholic liberal?
it’s neat, but kids will do nothing but text during class.
Without a stylus, what are the math, science, and art students supposed to do? Can’t type that stuff (quickly enough, in the case of math).
Blame me for the phone thing.
That said, you can run Skype on it – my son does that with his Mac Mini – works fine.
Apple ftw!
all your market share is belong to iPad
@8 – a better bet would be branded notepads that stick to the back of one – and have the name of the book or brand the reader is trying to belong to. Think Gucci or a fashion label – the people who buy iPads are going to want something to say how cool they are so other people can try to hook up with them.
@12, you are a zero. Please stop commenting.
You know, Apple has been the technology of choice in schools for something like 30 years, so the argument that they’re “gaining ground with students extremely quickly” is a little stale. In computers, holding steady forever at 5%. iPhone market share is dropping, even as sales increase, because other smartphones like Android and Palm models are beating it.
Will iPad take over the world? Dunno. Will it be like the iPod, and own (and even create) its market segment, or like the iPhone, and build a solid endlessly profitable niche? I think the latter.
When’s the first Android pad coming out?
@13 – lol, you’re just upset because – once again, I was right and you were wrong.
How’s that Kindle doing for ya?
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Thanks for helping me decide on which schools to never attend, that is the single silliest idea I’ve ever heard. I don’t think I know of a bigger boner for a worse product ever. Give the kids REAL COMPUTERS, not locked down propitiatory crap you can’t build on. The thing is utterly useless for the tech department, might be good for writing or something but you probably can’t take notes. Way better off spending half the money you would on the thing and getting a computer you can use, not something where you have to pay money each time you want a feature, at least something with the ability to create. I mean if you want to produce the kind of passive students that simply accept the world the way it is, consume it and move on it’s an excellent product. If I’m paying that much for education I want to learn, not just be some kind of stick.