“I’m betting that Acer have given this school a massive fat discount to roll out Iconia Tabs instead of iPads. To put it bluntly, I think the choice of an Android tablet instead of an iPad for students at this point is a foolish one. I don’t yet regard Google’s Android platform as being a mature operating system for tablets, with it needing at least another year to become fully baked into this form factor.”
I’d say Renai’s prediction on this is absolutely spot-on.
Education is all about the apps. And it’s an interesting area, because it’s not really about the breadth of app selection, but the depth of app selection that’s critical.
Breadth is important for the standard consumer. Does the Android tablet ecosystem have a Twitter app? Does it do Facebook? Does it have Angry Birds? Does it have an app for reading books? For playing music?
Depth of app selection is an entirely different notion. For example, you might have an app for teaching spelling in K-12 schools. The app for teaching spelling in Grade 1 (drag out letters, phonetic sounding, spell CAT & a cat leaps out etc) would be an entirely different experience for the one focused on Grade 4 (could involve typing, multiple word meanings, multi-syllabic words etc).
For education to work well, you not only need a good selection of apps as a whole, but you need good selection within the niches.
That’s where I think the iPad is years ahead of their competition. They’ve been filling out those app niches since launch. I don’t think the Android tablet ecosystem is even close.
Source: delimiter.com.au