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Chromebooks train schoolkids to be loyal customers, internal Google document suggests
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Duh? There's a reason Apple pushed hard to gets apples into schools in 80's and Microsoft did the same thing with Ms office in the nineties
Also why every college student gets free access to professional grade tools like photoshop, solidworks, or arcmap.
I'm not saying this isn't a somewhat nefarious practice. But also, it is completely unsurprising.
In this case I feel like it is extra nefarious, since the point of using chromebooks in schools is also to surveil students and not give them control over devices that are managed by school admins who would like a company to ensure that they do not get revealed as incompetent by child hackers. That shit is getting normalized and students are also not getting experience working with computers that aren't just edu-kiosks that only allow superficial interaction. Major contributing factor to tech illiteracy.
True, but Apple made cool, high-design stuff that was fun to use to win hearts and minds. Google makes the cheapest possible product that also harvests the maximum amount of your data. People can tell the difference.