This article deals with the effects of the introduction of iPads into primary school as a means by which children learn and participate in class. This development was interesting on two fronts. Firstly, the article demonstrates both the absolutely novelty of the product, but also the immediacy of its effects and the genuine progress that appears to have been made with it. Secondly, whereas in much of the literature that we have read, it appears that technology is aimed primarly at big-business, and as a means of spurring on economic growth and industrial development. In this instance, conversely, the iPad has changed the nature of education and is aimed at children - showing that this form of technology, and much that has followed since, is capable of having a much wider-reaching societal impact.
This article tracks the sales and growth of the iPad in the three years after it was launched (2010-2013). Whilst the figures are impressive, what is interesting is the recognition that the iPad is versatile and inheretly multifunctional. This would suggest that as a product it has, given the right circumstances i.e. product availability and costs, nearly unlimited global potential. For example, the article shows that the iPad can be used as a cash register; since there are shops all across the world, the use of the technology in this way can certainly have a global reach.