Apple for the day

Peter Svensson has a Time article about another poke in the eye for all those other computer companies:

Los Angeles’ school system, the second-largest in the country, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks.
The Los Angeles Board of Education recently approved the purchase of thirty million dollars worth of iPads as the first part of a multi-year commitment. It found that the iPad was the least expensive option that met its specifications.
Apple says the initial order is for more than thirty thousand iPads. The Los Angeles Unified School District has more than 640,000 students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
The textbooks will be delivered through an application from Pearson, a major publisher.

Rico says that, given the choice, what else would you provide?