{"id":1966,"date":"2012-01-20T10:39:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T17:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2012-01-20T10:43:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T17:43:03","slug":"the-dark-side-of-apples-digital-textbook-utopia-venturebeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/01\/20\/the-dark-side-of-apples-digital-textbook-utopia-venturebeat\/","title":{"rendered":"The dark side of Apple\u2019s digital textbook utopia | VentureBeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2012\/01\/19\/apple-textbook-dark-side\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Venturebeat+%28VentureBeat%29\">The dark side of Apple\u2019s digital textbook utopia | VentureBeat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"nqKfOLrsFD\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/mobile\/apple-textbook-dark-side\/\">The dark side of Apple&#8217;s digital textbook utopia<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The dark side of Apple&#8217;s digital textbook utopia&#8221; &#8212; VentureBeat\" src=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/mobile\/apple-textbook-dark-side\/embed\/#?secret=aIwJzCputO#?secret=nqKfOLrsFD\" data-secret=\"nqKfOLrsFD\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the problems with Apple is that it wants to commandeer market share by preventing people from having a choice. Even though the love for Apple is strong in Education, the fact remains that in Ed, &#8220;open is better than closed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a lone voice in the wilderness:<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"h s-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/bott\/apples-mind-bogglingly-greedy-and-evil-license-agreement\/4360\" target=\"_blank\">Apple&#8217;s mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Apples-New-E-Textbook\/130399\/?sid=at&amp;utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en\" target=\"_blank\">The Chronicle of Higher Ed: Apple&#8217;s New E-Textbook Platform Enters an Already Crowded Field<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1966'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1966);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1966);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1966);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The dark side of Apple\u2019s digital textbook utopia | VentureBeat. The dark side of Apple&#8217;s digital textbook utopia One of the problems with Apple is that it wants to commandeer market share by preventing people from having a choice. Even &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/01\/20\/the-dark-side-of-apples-digital-textbook-utopia-venturebeat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-vI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":606,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/04\/29\/on-second-thought-apple-may-indeed-be-changing-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":1966,"position":0},"title":"On second thought, Apple may indeed be changing the world&#8230;..","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"April 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"But not the ways it intends. I came across this post on FB the other day: The New Television: How the iPad Changes Everything by Kevin Wheeler on April 27, 2010 In it he talks about how \"The iPad is just as revolutionary a device.\u00a0 In its simplicity and minimalism\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1996,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/01\/25\/choose-education-or-fun-apparently-you-cant-have-both\/","url_meta":{"origin":1966,"position":1},"title":"Choose: Education OR Fun. Apparently, you can&#8217;t have both.","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"January 25, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I've talked about this before (Trading off between Education and Fun??? SRSLY?, and FUN Should NOT be an \u2018F\u2019-Word). I even wrote about this in my book. Many people in Education seem to believe that fun and education are at odds with each other. 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