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Open Your Mouth, Gift Horse
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Check out the reporting in this article about Apple offering a free app to teach coding to kids -- the reporter takes constant shots at Apple for the app because it works only on iPads. She paints it as an attempt to sell the devices, and perhaps it is, but so what? They're under no obligation to create ANY app for this, are they? Are they obligated to make it work on Android, too? Are they obligated to make it work without any device, not that it would be possible? Note this line: "The Apple coding app is free, but it requires an iPad, the company’s tablet computer, which has declining sales and which many schools and families may not be able to afford." "Declining sales," "may not be able to afford"... would you blame a company for just saying screw it, we're not going to even try? (New York Times)
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