Recent announcements by Tim Cook claiming that iPads ruled the roost in education shocked many. The statistics included a claim that there had been a doubling of iPads sold into education in the UK, and an astonishing 94 per cent market share in education in the US, must have made grim reading for Apple’s competitors. As a veteran developer of education apps for iOS, I already had a pretty good view of the landscape of tablets in education. Research I conducted this summer pointed towards a similar picture, with a fourteen-to-one lead over Android in the UK, and a fifty-to-one lead in the US. So while Tim Cook’s numbers didn’t surprise me, it was good to confirm my findings. The reason for the research into tablet use in education was to see if it might be worth developing my PocketPhonics app for other platforms. After almost five years in the Apple App
