In the latest turn of events, Apple has been ordered to pay a sum of $4.2 million for the botched program that sought to put an iPad on every student, teacher, and administrator in the Los Angeles Unified District.
The iPhone-maker was supposed to earn $30 million from the project that was reported to have cost about $1.3 billion. However, the project was plagued with issues since it first began. According to a federal review of the Los Angeles Unified Schools District's project, the plan was doomed from the start. It did not have a clear goal, there are other cheaper alternatives to iPhone's iPads, teachers did not receive proper training, and the internet connections were failed to get upgraded.
Additionally, students have managed to work out how to bypass the restrictions on the iPads to ensure that the devices will be exclusively used for school work. The bypass was to delete a personal profile that was used to limit the usage of the iPads when students take them at home. This then forced the LA school to temporarily halt the distribution of devices.
The Los Angeles Unified School will also be getting an expected amount of $6.4 million from Pearson, an education software maker, that was supposed to develop curriculums for Math and English. According to the district, Pearson only delivered a partial curriculum.
The Los Angeles Unififed School District is in the hot seat and is now accused of mismanagement, miscalculation, and corruption. A federal group jury subpoeanaed documents of the LA school relating to the bidding process for the project.
While the FBI investigation is still underway, The Lost Angeles Unified School district will be used by the company to purchase computers for another use outside the past blunder.
Apple could have reached a profit point of $500 million when whe deal was made. However, as the project started with a tad too many errors in compilations in the project, and Apple is expected to pay the official amount stated.
