One of the things I dealt with today was how to make a mass purchase of a paid app for my school's 31 iPads. With Apple's volume purchasing program, if you are buying 10 or more qualifying apps, they are half price. This is a good deal, ensures that I purchase the right number legally, and makes loading them easy. The downside is I can't do this without the assistance of someone in central office. If I made the purchase myself, it would not only be full price (not a big issue at $1.99), but I could only legally load it on six devices. I would have to purchase a total of six copies, allowing me a maximum of 36 loads. As far as I know, the only other way to purchase 5 additional apps would be to make each purchase under a different account. That's not happening. I'll tell you, in my opinion Apple makes managing large numbers of apps complicated for an individual user.
After having a conversation with someone at the SBO, I now understand that the afore mentioned one app/six devices is not pertinent to school iPads. It's fine with personal devices, but at school it's one app/one device.
I know there must be a faster, more efficient way to get this app on all the iPads. I had to upload a spreadsheet with the URL and redemption code to Drobox, access it through Cloud On, and copy and paste the URL to Safari. However, in order for each one to work, I had to remove all the restrictions and reset them when I was done. I got seven completed. That's SEVEN, not 17 or 77!
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