Mac laptops and iPads were once the dominant devices in American classrooms, but Google has shot past Apple with inexpensive laptops called Chromebooks. Google has also led the way in software products designed specifically for schools, with an app called Google Classroom that teachers use to take attendance, assign homework and do other tasks, among others. School districts embraced Chromebooks because they were comparatively inexpensive and easy to use. And school districts could use a software dashboard to manage thousands of devices at once. Still, Apple generates the most revenue from school hardware sales in the United States, partly because its devices cost more.

Source: New York Times March 27, 2018 18:14 UTC