TLT CoffeeRead for August 31: How will Steve Jobs leaving affect higher education
Care2 column looks at whether Apple will continue to be a growing influence on higher education
After Steve Jobs, Will Apple’s Commitment to Higher Ed Change?
"I remember buying my first Apple computer — my first computer — in 1988 while in college. I worked for an “alternative” newspaper at my university and we used Apple computers precisely because of their design capacity (all those fonts). Though the Macintosh SE I lugged back to my dorm room cost a bit more than a gray IBM-type machine, it seemed worth it, especially after I became an editor at the paper. My university had computer labs stocked with Apples (and with IBM computers running DOS). But at most of the universities I’ve since studied and taught at, Dells and the like have been the norm until recently with the rise of the iPod, iPhone and iPad."
