The Coachella Valley Unified School District will save about $430,000 after Apple’s announcement last Tuesday that some of its most popular productivity and creativity apps will now be available for free.
Apple announced at their recent iPhone launch that the iWorks suite of iOS apps will be free on all new iOS 7 compatible devices activated after 1 September 2013. This is a $29.97 saving per device.
Schools in South Africa that have deployed iPads to students often pass the cost of iWorks onto the parents, so this will be a welcome saving here too.
Read more on the CVUSD savvy move here