Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, March 23rd, 2018.

Today, low-cost iPads are coming, Dropbox IPOs, there are touch screen issues with Galaxy

S9s, Craigslist pulls all of its personal ads and the weekend long reads.

Here's what happened today in the world of tech.

If Bloomberg's Mark Germin is right and to be fair he usually is, the next Tuesday's Apple event will end up being exactly what everybody kind of thought it would be.

German reports that Apple will unveil new low-cost iPads in an attempt to win back the education

market from rivals like Microsoft and especially Google, which has seen its Chromebooks have much success recently in schools.

The global educational technology market is apparently worth $.7 billion dollars a year and

Apple used to dominate it. If you're of a certain age it was basically only

Apple twos and Apple two e's that you had in your classrooms growing up. But over the last decade

or so, Google especially has been aggressively targeting this market.

According to Germin's report, devices running Google's operating systems on Chromebooks or

Android tablets held 60% of the education market, with Windows PCs coming in at

22% and Apple devices accounting for only 17%.

Tuesday's Apple event will also reportedly feature new school-centric software.

Apple already makes a classroom app for the iPad,

which lets teachers manage Apple devices that are assigned to students.

And there is the iTunes U app,

which lets teachers issue homework assignments and post lessons online.

One interesting note is that the rumored new cheaper Macbook that people think will be coming

soon to replace the Macbook Air as the entry-level laptop in Apple's lineup

probably won't be ready in time to be announced next week

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