Google is backing out from a small segment of its booming training company by using ending the life of a product that changed into developed to inspire adoption of Android capsules in faculties, Google partners informed CRN on Friday.
Google Play for education, an extension of the Play utility distribution platform, was rolled out round two years ago with the intent of putting more drugs into the hands of scholars. The app store, curated in close collaboration with educators, enabled solution providers to manage each devices and their really expert content material.
but the web large from Mountain View, Calif., proven to CRN on Friday it will stop selling Play for education licenses to accomplice tablet companies March 14. Google observed it is going to continue helping all current accounts, allowing present customers to access the education-concentrated app save for provided that their devices are in provider.
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Play for training turned into accessible to educators, and companions that serve that market, through a choose variety of Android tablets. The product is within the Google for schooling household that additionally sells Chromebook laptops, the foremost-promoting brand in the academic market.
whereas Play for training could be withdrawn from the market, Android capsules will nevertheless be able to run all the educational apps that were accessible through Play. and some of Google's enterprise Mobility management partners will proceed providing their own Android marketplaces for discovering and pushing content material to students.
One Google associate govt who asked no longer to be named advised CRN he realized of the product's termination after making an attempt to acquire capsules for a consumer.
"We observed something funny a couple weeks in the past" when a shopper requested a quote for a few Play for Work tablets, the Google companion told CRN. "really all manufacturers told us all those gadgets have been end-of-lifed."
Asus, then Samsung, mentioned they did not have substitute devices that have been Play-integrated, the reseller referred to. They informed him to study Chromebook laptops as an alternative.
Google later suggested the accomplice that Play for schooling became on its means out, and the business should still center of attention on its Chromebooks apply for serving the educational market.
That accomplice exec talked about he believes some skill issues, like a restrained number of student profiles that may be loaded onto a single gadget, coupled with competitors from Apple's iPads, stored the Android capsules from deeply penetrating the education market, and satisfied Google to step again from the software.
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