{"id":5293,"date":"2016-10-13T16:25:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T16:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2016-10-13T16:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T16:25:36","slug":"google-crushing-it-in-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/google-crushing-it-in-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Google crushing it in classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the\u00a0endless\u00a0cage match between Google, Apple and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft<\/a>, Google is quickly carving out a niche in one clear area \u2013 schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Data Corp. <\/a>this week reported that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/chromebooks-destroyed-apple-in-back-to-school-shopping-2016-10-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Apple\u2019s sales of its Mac personal computers in the third quarter dropped 13 percent <\/a>from a year ago. \u00a0In comparison, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc.xyz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alphabet Inc.<\/a>, Google\u2019s parent company, reported a decline of just 3.9 percent year-over-year. Personal computer sales in general have been declining as buyers transition to the increasing array of specialized devices such as tablets and smartphones. Alphabet\u2019s losses were less steep because of Chromebooks, the stripped-down laptops that run on Google\u2019s Chrome operating system, which have become the laptop of choice for schools nationwide.<a href=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/icon-techlab.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5294 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/icon-techlab.jpg\" alt=\"icon-techlab\" width=\"150\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the $200 price tag per Chromebook that is luring budget-conscious school districts. As of the end of 2015, more than 50 million students were using Google&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/edu\/products\/productivity-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apps for Education<\/a> to collaborate on and share documents, submit research, and complete homework projects. Chromebooks come to districts with just a small management fee, with teacher-approved apps and books and let administrators share work with entire schools, entire classes or just a few individuals with a few clicks.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Alphabet had less than 1 percent of the U.S. Classroom market, according to Futuresource Consulting. By the third quarter of 2015, Alphabet had 53 percent of the market for K-12 devices bought by schools and school districts. Every day, more than 30,000 new Chromebooks are activated in schools. As the students brought up in this ecosphere move into the workforce they are more likely to default to Google G-Suite rather than Microsoft Office, if given the choice.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/techlab.thinkerventures.com\/\">Thinker Tech Lab<\/a>\u00a0can provide managed information-technology services or help you develop a long-term IT business plan. Because of the cost savings, security benefits,\u00a0and workstation flexibility, Thinker&#8217;s advice\u00a0for most organizations\u00a0is\u00a0to move all core apps to the cloud,\u00a0then replace all workstations with inexpensive Chrome devices that take eight seconds to upgrade instead of up to an hour, normally taken by Windows desktops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the\u00a0endless\u00a0cage match between Google, Apple and Microsoft, Google is&hellip;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/google-crushing-it-in-classrooms\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}