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Chromebooks go down big time

by on11 December 2017

 

Tame Apple Press cheers

The Tame Apple Press is celebrating after Google experienced a huge stuff up of its Chromebook services.

For those who came in late, Apple and Google have been slugging it out in the US education market. Apple ends up in the paws of rich kids whose parents are too stupid to look up what spec their school needs. Chromebooks end up in the hands of those who have less money to spend.

Google has been doing well in this market and there has been little that the Tame Apple Press could say about it until Google’s cloud based Chromebooks suffered a meltdown for a few hours last week.

A botched wi-fi policy update pushed out by Google caused many Chromebooks to forget their approved network connection, leaving students disconnected. Google first gave schools a heads-up via Twitter after the fact, indicating there was a fix.

At last the Tame Apple Press had something they could club all those stupid poor people who didn’t sell their kidneys to buy their kids an expensive Apple toy for their kids.

“That disclosure led to dismayed reaction by educators, some of whom had Chromebook installations in the thousands. Reddit, too, suddenly had multiple discussions popping up with school tech directors offering advice and condolences to each other. Downdetector indicated many reported outages roughly during the same period”, cried one story.

Suddenly it seemed that with two hours down time the world had forgotten that Apple’s own wi-fi was not the greatest either and there was that wonderful moment that the iPhone 7 interfered with wi-fi on Macbooks.

 

Last modified on 11 December 2017
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