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The Non-US company will just keep shipping under a different brand name. It’s akin to playing wack a mole.

Any US Companies targeting the US education system as clients comes with insane markup (anything iPad). The US based companies are still going to data collect (see chromebooks) the schools are so underfunded, their only choice is to use cheap Non-US knock offs.

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Idk, I used to work IT in schools and in NYS, funding is distributed to schools based on their poverty levels. So that wasn't the case, we were buying chromebooks from reputable vendors and brands. Most all use Dell for regular laptops and desktops.

Microsoft charges next to nothing, and even subsidizes hardware, for edu MDM'd devices. Basic services are more expensive than enterprise, but not by much.

The second you want any educational specific SKUs, though, holy shit.

I think Microsoft, Github and many other companies also provide many free/subsidized services to those who can prove they're students, that includes even web hosting on AWS or digital ocean IIRC. Even leaving those aside, there are also plenty of open source options (such as LibreOffice) for those "services" and software that kids find useful.

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