'By Innovation Only' new iPhone event, Apple saves Amazon, Fraser Spiers on the AppleInsider Podcast

This week on the AppleInsider Podcast, Victor and William talk about the By Innovation Only September event, Fraser Speirs joins to talk about Chromebooks for schools, and Apple saves the Amazon.

AppleInsider editor Victor Marks and writer William Gallagher discuss:

By Innovation Only - the invites to the September 10th event have gone out. Are you getting a new iPhone?
Fraser Speirs, head teacher of Cedars School of Excellence talks about the 1:1 iPad program they ran for ten years, and why they're switching to Chromebook
Apple releases iOS 13.1 beta before releasing 13.0 publicly. This is weird. We're through the looking glass, people.
Glasgow schools are rolling out a huge 52,000 iPads program
Apple is working on improving Siri's privacy protections and opt-out options.
Apple is putting up cash to help save the Amazon rainforests from fire destruction.

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13 Comments

rotateleftbyte 1630 comments · 12 Years

About 5 years ago

You might like to change the title. "Apple saves Amazon" would suggest that that behmoth purveyor of tat named Amazon has been saved by Apple.

The text has the missing 'the' which resolves the confusion.

CloudTalkin 916 comments · 5 Years

rotateleftbyte said:

You might like to change the title. "Apple saves Amazon" would suggest that that behmoth purveyor of tat named Amazon has been saved by Apple.
The text has the missing 'the' which resolves the confusion.

That may be the intent.

coolfactor 2334 comments · 20 Years

I hope there's some deep meaning behind that jelly Apple logo. Otherwise, what's the point? They didn't even get the colours correct.

StrangeDays 12962 comments · 8 Years

coolfactor said:

I hope there's some deep meaning behind that jelly Apple logo. Otherwise, what's the point? They didn't even get the colours correct.

Define “correct”. Those look very much like the five colors from the jelly iMacs, even if the shades aren’t identical.

As for the point, there may not be. The invites don’t always have deep secret meanings.

mcdave 1927 comments · 19 Years

Fraser Speirs’ comments seemed to illustrate how education has followed business in putting provider convenience before customer experience. He seems to be really bitter about the demise of iTunesU whilst ignoring other benefits.

A few confusing points for me as Apple has been pushing;
- document persistence since before Google got into Apps and most Apps don’t have ‘Save’ buttons.
- non-file-based sharing, just push the content from the App.
- cloud persistence with iCloud (and were even lambasted for not presenting it as a ‘drive’). Did Fraser forget to turn iCloud on?
- did they not use Jamf for device/content config/deployment? Or Classroom Apps for management?

I am with him on Apple dropping content/courseware production tools. And not turning macOS cloud-first as iOS has been since iCloud (even if he fails to acknowledge it). They deserve to lose the classroom which is a shame because iOS Apps win over Chrome/Web Apps any day.

Sort it out Apple.