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Apple reorganizes education sales, marketing

updated 12:30 pm EDT, Mon June 10, 2002

 
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Apple last week reorganized its education sales and marketing groups, rehiring former executive John Couch as the VP of education (reporting directly to Executive VP of worldwide sales and operation, Timothy V. Cook). Cheryl Vedoe, former head of the education marketing team, is assuming the title of president of Apple's PowerSchool division, which provides Web-based student information systems for education customers.


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  1. mrl14

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    Sports Games!!

    What pisses me off the most is that there are no sports games for mac...really...we got football but that was old where is hockey, soccer or baseball? You can't tell me that there is no market for them because we pay these players millions of dollars...they can sell games...jeez! Everyday we get another friggin Doom game....WHERE THE F*CK ARE THE SPORTS GAMES!

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    Why don't you post your game-related comments in the game article that was out this morning rather than on an Apple EDU reorg article.

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    06/10, 01:26pm | report spam | Reply |

    sports games

    It has to do with marketing, right? first posters comments are fine.

  1. ::snowman::

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    06/10, 01:35pm | report spam | Reply |

    um .. here's an idea.

    Buy a Playstation2 or Game Cube or even Xbox ...

    seriously now. You can be a complainer or you can get what you want. There are other things out there besides what goes in your Mac.

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    Another Edu Reorg?

    Didn't Apple just a year or two ago reorganize its education division because Dell was taking marketshare? Is this an indication that education numbers have been less than stellar this year? I hope that's not the case.

  1. impierced

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    Yes ... another reorg...

    Sucks doesn't it...

    Oh and for those that think the new reorg is better, I've some info for you... it's not. The new group is increasing the cost for Volume Licensing of the OS next month... that's just what the education channel needs now...

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    Administrative systems

    In higher ed, the Mac is really hampered by the fact that so many administrative systems don't run (well) on the Mac. Take a look at the Dartmouth article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed; that same situation is happening elsewhere.

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    hmm

    Intel builds voice hardware into mobo

    INTEL HAS TEAMED UP with Analog Devices to build voice and speech recognition hardware into a new motherboard.
    Intel's D845EBT desktop board will feature DI's SoundMAX CadenzaT Digital Audio System with built-in noise cancellation technology and support for Andrea Electronics' Superbeam Array Microphone, Analog announced today.

    PCs sporting the new board will be available this month from Micron PC, the companies said. MicronPC Millenia TS2 Professional and Xtreme models start at $999 (£999 - usually).

    "We are delivering much more than a motherboard with the D845EBT Desktop board," tumpeted Intel's Desktop Marketing Director Joel Christensen, in a statement. "We are providing a platform that will improve the way that users interact with their PCs, allowing them to use voice as an input device."

    Voice activation is expected to be a 'next big thing' in desktops.

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    re: hmm

    I don't feel like talking to my computer. Can you imagine an office full of people talking to their computers? A library? a classroom?

    My friend played with voice recognition on the Mac back in 1998 where he had it set to do all he wanted while talking. Let's just say after 20 minutes he was bored of it and turned it off and went back to work.

    This kind of technology can be very helpful for a certain amount of people, but this type of technology has been around a long time, Intel is not making anything special besides making it on the motherboard.

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    price...

    ... is much of what higher ed considers, not platform design and elegance. Either Apple is willing to treat the edu market differently than the consumer market (where they sell the "added value" of the included software, design elegance, etc. for the extra cost over cheap PCs) or they will continue to lose marketshare. They must sell slash prices, and yet offer more support (for free!) to edu Mac sites. The academic market can only be considered an investment, not a profit center.

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