Apple Showing Students The Right Way?

Do students benefit or get distracted from an ipod?

Ipods distracting students?

In Business, you can spend millions of dollars on advertising and drive customers to your store. An easier way would be to place a store near the targeted audience and give a discount. Apple has always had the best products, backed with a spectacular business model and advertising strategies. In a grasping move by apple, students are also considered a very active customer base, and most universities in the United States have an apple store inside the campus. Students also get a discount of at least $100 in macbooks and even more in macbook pro.

In fact, most people who have used a mac, always feel the difference and it is the price of the competitors’ stuff that beats the apple’s products. Apple offers a discount to any college student, faculty including administrators. Apple also offers educational discount to K-12 schools. Students have always been in the focus as prominent buyers of apple’s goods.

In a reciprocation note, college administrators and faculty have also favored the products from apple, with a few college even make macbooks mandatory. In a recent press release by Shenandoah University, the university announced that all freshmen will be equipped with macbooks and a ipod touch.

Oklahama university is also on the same line as that of SU and announced that all freshmen, attending the orientation will receive a macbook. 5,000 students in Abilene Christian University also have an option to receive a iphone or an ipod touch. The college students in this university use the ipod/iphone to do everything from checking status of home work to participating in surveys and even to check their meal.

Duke university was one of the first universities to announce the use of ipod for a vast array of activities. Rochester College, another reputed university known for its research work, is also planning to give away free 13 inch macbooks to all the students.

What is your thought? Do macbooks and ipod touch make life easier for a student? Or is it plain distraction to use an ipod in a classroom? Is apple taking advantage of the vast resources in universities or are their gadgets really finding the potential users? Have your say..

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