[android tablet] Google Play for Education Store being shut

[Brimstone]

This is likely to be the death knell for android tablets in schools....

 

Google's app store for education is being shut down | The Verge

[snagrat]

This is likely to be the death knell for android tablets in schools....

 

Google's app store for education is being shut down | The Verge

 

Not really, LearnPad are still going strong in Education

[Brimstone]

Not really, LearnPad are still going strong in Education

 

Oh, and what OS do Learnpads use...?

[Arthur]

Already posted.

 

www.edugeek.net/forums/cloud-services/166256-google-quietly-shutters-play-education.html

 

This is likely to be the death knell for Android tablets in schools....

With Google merging Android with Chrome OS perhaps it won't matter in the future?

[snagrat]

Oh, and what OS do Learnpads use...?

 

They run on Android but do not utilise Play for Education

[Arthur]

This is likely to be the death knell for android tablets in schools.

Android apps running on Chromebooks will no doubt be far more popular in schools than Android tablets ever were.

 

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/25/11773722/chromebooks-gaining-android-app-support-list

[Lonix]

We use Android tablets and this is quite disappointing. Luckily enough we are scrapping it all so we don't use the educational side of it but we had considerations...

 

This is what frustrates me with these companies. They push and push for us to buy their products because it can do all this and shortly after.. its scrapped and you are screwed. Main reason we didn't go down the Apple route was because of the cost per device over Android.

 

Really good thing we are scrapping it all and going to a pc which costs us £200 each and a monitor is only £50.