{"id":11326,"date":"2013-10-14T19:18:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T00:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11326"},"modified":"2013-10-14T19:20:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T00:20:06","slug":"10-of-amplify-tablets-broke-in-their-first-month-one-north-carolina-school-district-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11326","title":{"rendered":"10% of Amplify Tablets Broke in Their First Month, One North Carolina School District Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This tablet was always intended to go into schools, and that is why it was supposed to have been built with a layer of Gorilla Glass over the screen. This was in the contract that GCS signed, and it was also mentioned prominently in the early news coverage of this tablet. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcsnc.com\/education\/components\/scrapbook\/default.php?sectiondetailid=366581\">According to the school district<\/a>, none of the Amplify tablets that they bought had that protective layer, which might help explain why so many tablets broke.<\/p>\n<p>Or to put it another way, the absence of Gorilla Glass is a sign that someone cut corners on the build quality for this production run. Given that there were also complaints about misfitted cases and defective power supplies,\u00a0 I am not terribly surprised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-digital-reader.com\/2013\/10\/07\/10-amplfiy-tablets-broke-first-month-one-north-carolina-school-district-reports\/#.UlS5ut3NuVA\">10% of Amplify Tablets Broke in Their First Month, One North Carolina School District Reports &#8211; The Digital Reader<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As I reported when the Amplify tablet debuted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-digital-reader.com\/2013\/03\/06\/newscorp-launches-new-solution-to-the-problem-of-public-education\/\">March of this year<\/a>, this tablet is NewsCorp\u2019s \u201csolution\u201d to the \u201cproblem\u201d of education:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tablet was always intended to go into schools, and that is why it was supposed to have been built with a layer of Gorilla Glass over the screen. This was in the contract that GCS signed, and it was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11326\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[1206,367,1087,115],"class_list":["post-11326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-amplify","tag-education","tag-government-contracts","tag-tablets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11327,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11326\/revisions\/11327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}