Apple’s new iPad is a total misfire that shows how out of touch the company is with schools and kids

The new iPad Apple unveiled Wednesday seems ill-suited to solve its woes in the education market. Apple doesn't seem to understand how kids use devices or what schools need. Compared with Chromebooks, the notebooks running Google OS that dominate the US school market, the new iPad is pricey, fragile, and impractical. After all, how often do adults drop their phones? Now, give every kid an iPad, and you can imagine the chaos. Apple's executives seem to have forgotten anything they ever...