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Tim Cook's vision of kids everywhere coding is DOA without iBooks Author

Apple's 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we found it.

This sentence is part of Apple's company summary and might as well be their mission statement. It would be great if this sentence were true.

Without much additional work, it could be.

Swift Playgrounds reminds us of another Apple product

The WWDC 2016 keynote moved at a brisk pace, covering a number of incremental improvements to strengthen core businesses for the company, but none would be considered visionary or innovative.

Toward the end, Tim Cook elevated his game and closed with a dramatic flourish worthy of his predecessor, Steve Jobs.

He introduced Swift Playgrounds, an iPad app designed to make it easier for kids to learn how to code, and drove the point home with an emotional video about how learning to code changes lives for the better.

Cook described Swift Playgrounds as "a gift to kids and schools across the world," and announced this soft...

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