Comment Re:shocker (Score 1) 325
. If you define iOS as essential to education, then by defintion any device not running iOS will be inadequate.
I don't think anyone is saying essential. But the 2013 spec the goal was highly interactive textbook applications and these mainly exist on iOS. That's not arbitrary.
I could define open source software as essential to education, but I would be required to justify such a claim.
The justification in this case were:
a) Interactivity leads to greater enjoyment thus higher literacy and lower refusal to use
b) iPad and Chromebook are used by California testing and thus familiarity with these two devices is a plus.
If you haven't already, you should check out this small startup company called Google. They have actually invested quite a bit of money into tablet software, if that's what's important to you.
As a percentage of the total tablet software, no they haven't invested very much.
You can develop software for any platform whether it's iOS, android, windows, macOS, linux, etc. In fact people have developed software that makes it possible to develop software for all these platforms simultaneously.
I'm not sure that's really true in practice having used cross platform toolkits for 18 years. Certainly not quite that range. But regardless what can happen is not what does happen.