Don't let the truth get in the way of collective axe grinding.
It seems like many people on HN are like bots that see "Apple" in a headline and auto-post responses with the keywords "walled garden," "right to repair," "monopoly," "30% cut," and "Apple tax" no matter what the discussion is actually about.
Some day I hope to post an article about new innovation in the field harvesting of Macintosh apples and see all the complaints that have nothing at all to do with farming.
Thinking is optional. What's important is to keep throwing out those talking point cliches like a politician at a debate gone wrong.
Not surprising, given how iTunes U never found a critical mass and quite frankly stagnated.
It's a shame, since education tech is very bad and could really use a wake-up call. I thought Apple entering the space might increase competition and lead to new innovation, but obviously that didn't happen.
iTunesU predates things like Coursera. I’d say it took someone like Apple to convince major universities that making their lectures available was worthwhile or else people like Coursera never would have gotten off the ground. It’s a very different market now and iTunesU definitely stagnated but in 2007 it was pretty cool.
iTunes U was totally cool in 2007, and remained cool into the early 2010s with some improvements. My just wish it had remained cool until today!
To be honest, I think iTunes U was negative incentive for universities to put content online, since it was basically a failure. It took Coursera (and MITx, etc.) to show the value in MOOCs, and that people would pay for it. I'm not sure the line between iTunes U and Coursera is necessarily a straight one.
It was a wake-up call when it started. It's since been replaced by plenty of better alternatives. There's more online learning content now than ever before, across more formats and platforms.
Good. We don't need a single company with their hands in so many pies. Especially not one that is attempting to ensnare the entire economy under their "all computing and all payments" protection racket.
We don't need students caught in Apple's all-consuming net.
Apple needs to face common carrier / antitrust regulations. They can't put all Americans behind iStore, iPayments, iNoCustomerRelationshipForU and tax every company in existence.
Apple's end game is for everyone on this earth to pay them transactionally for everything they do. Use the toilet? Pay Apple.
What iTunes U. can be is a listicle space for like minded people to fuse what they know and bring along the audience with them. Nasa does an awesome job at public outreach when a major mission program is going through a critical path, such as, Perseverence and New Horizons. Experts explain what is going on in reaction to questions fielded by the public. The ace Apple has up its sleeve is a level of trust freemium platforms don't have. Would people pay $7 per week for 7 perfect listicle items for knowing what is going on at the cutting edge in areas of their interest? That's the price of two takeout coffees.
22 comments
[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 59.8 ms ] threadOne part of the wall garden chipped away for others to compete without the user getting locked in.
EDIT:
I am clearly talking about 'iTunes U' NOT 'iTunes' as the walled garden.
As of 2017, iTunes U is not 'cross-platform' and became a walled garden. [0]
[0] https://9to5mac.com/2017/08/20/itunes-u-move-podcasts
Compare to Spotify, which is cross-platform: iOS, MacOS, Win, Linux, Android and probably others.
https://www.umass.edu/it/support/general/access-itunes-u-a-m...
Don't let the truth get in the way of collective axe grinding.
It seems like many people on HN are like bots that see "Apple" in a headline and auto-post responses with the keywords "walled garden," "right to repair," "monopoly," "30% cut," and "Apple tax" no matter what the discussion is actually about.
Some day I hope to post an article about new innovation in the field harvesting of Macintosh apples and see all the complaints that have nothing at all to do with farming.
Thinking is optional. What's important is to keep throwing out those talking point cliches like a politician at a debate gone wrong.
It's a shame, since education tech is very bad and could really use a wake-up call. I thought Apple entering the space might increase competition and lead to new innovation, but obviously that didn't happen.
To be honest, I think iTunes U was negative incentive for universities to put content online, since it was basically a failure. It took Coursera (and MITx, etc.) to show the value in MOOCs, and that people would pay for it. I'm not sure the line between iTunes U and Coursera is necessarily a straight one.
We don't need students caught in Apple's all-consuming net.
Apple needs to face common carrier / antitrust regulations. They can't put all Americans behind iStore, iPayments, iNoCustomerRelationshipForU and tax every company in existence.
Apple's end game is for everyone on this earth to pay them transactionally for everything they do. Use the toilet? Pay Apple.
They're not a government. Wake the fuck up, DOJ.
That's ending any day, no?