{"id":1079,"date":"2012-01-24T12:20:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T12:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orfeu.org\/2012\/01\/24\/mathew-ingram-comments-on-apples-digital-textbooks-initiative-but-the-biggest-criticism-of-apples\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T19:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T18:46:43","slug":"mathew-ingram-comments-on-apples-digital-textbooks-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/mathew-ingram-comments-on-apples-digital-textbooks-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathew Ingram comments on Apple&#8217;s digital textbooks initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mathew Ingram comments on Apple&#8217;s digital textbooks initiative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the biggest criticism of Apple\u2019s attempt to co-opt the educational system doesn\u2019t have anything to do with costs: If its digital textbooks became the standard in schools, it would commit those institutions to a much broader \u2014 and theoretically much more dangerous \u2014 relationship with a technology provider than we have ever seen. Apple\u2019s iMacs may have made their way into every school, but they didn\u2019t control a key part of the curriculum. Every textbook would effectively have to be approved by Apple, and the software that controlled them would belong to Apple alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att\">\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/01\/19\/do-we-want-textbooks-to-live-in-apples-walled-garden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Do we want textbooks to live in Apple&#8217;s walled garden?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-img\" style=\"float: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/01\/19\/do-we-want-textbooks-to-live-in-apples-walled-garden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/AgvQFpHoegsFtYqcBMk2Z7f_WMNfYBsmBFNCVqeNsRQ1p2bh0x1KhiQs_c0HY55QsGTQsa6Jv7RJ2NUoQQhpA1sXKPdJH-fHtlkOnJL5genJPdMtEUh_L13Q8mleRNG2le0=w120-h120\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-txt\">Apple&#8217;s new textbook offering and book-authoring software are attractive, and the idea of digital textbooks makes sense, but they are both locked to Apple&#8217;s walled-garden ecosystem. That may be fine f&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-backlink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112390264067431209914\/posts\/eojtfiJHujN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This was posted on Google+<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathew Ingram comments on Apple&#8217;s digital textbooks initiative. &#8220;But the biggest criticism of Apple\u2019s attempt to co-opt the educational system doesn\u2019t have anything to do with costs: If its digital textbooks became the standard in schools, it would commit those institutions to a much broader \u2014 and theoretically much more dangerous \u2014 relationship with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s-r"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7w8s-hp","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}