Thursday, May 07, 2009
 
Apple Is Mandatory
Class lectures? There’s an app for that: Journalism school to require iPod use:
    Kayla Miller isn't sure why she would need an iPhone or an iPod Touch in her courses at the University of Missouri, but she likes the idea of the school requiring students to have them.

    "I don’t really see a need for them, but I think it's cool," she said.

    After all, Miller, 19, said, if the devices are required — as they will be for all incoming journalism majors starting in the fall — many parents will feel like they have to buy them for their teens. Even though she'll be a sophomore next year and won’t be required to have one, Miller said she might urge her parents to buy her one for her journalism courses, anyway.

    The MU School of Journalism is requiring that all incoming freshmen have iPhones or iPod Touch devices to "help students adjust to freshmen year," Associate Dean Brian Brooks said. "It also would allow them to record lectures and review it. Many schools are doing it now, and it seemed like a great idea to us."
See, while you're looking at Halliburton and Blackwater, the corporations favored by the cool and the hep are becoming mandatory.

And the worst part is the well-conditioned student who is in favor of compulsory iPods even though she doesn't see the need for it. She just accepts that the authorities are compelling students for the better.

I'm not saying I fear for the future of this country, because that might imply I think this country has a future. Instead, here are real estate listings for Sandpoint, Idaho. Good luck.

(Hat tip to gimlet.)

Comments:
You didn't point out what I considered to be the money quote in the article:

By making it a requirement, Brooks said, students could count it as part of their financial aid plans. Brooks also said students who purchase Apple computers would get discounted rates on the iPhone or iPod Touch.I guess as long as our tax dollars are going to propping up Chrysler so they can be sold to an Italian company, we might as well splurge on some iPods for college kids.
 



oh boy. and we thought that MSFT was something to worry about.
 



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