This is an old post, but a feel-good post that makes me smile each time. I’m glad to see the statue is still there 7 years later (minus the brief theft).

Agreed. It seems like the “Hub” mode is just a fancy screensaver which is a placeholder for something more.

I do like the tablet but the “hub mode” is nothing more than a fancy charger with a speaker. I have to keep a Nest Mini next to it for my smart home things to work in that room when I take the tablet to another part of the house.

What press? A competent school district would expect to operate the hardware for 2 or 3 years at most. And those tablets were nothing more than $200 Chromebooks with a touchscreen. Compared to textbook pricing they came out ahead.