On a freezing, cloudless day last January in New York, Apple presented to the world its vision for the future of education. It was a clear-eyed argument for bringing tablets into classrooms, a blueprint for fusing cutting-edge technology with advanced learning techniques. But the future doesn’t get built on no-bid contracts. And slowly, steadily—especially after its announcement of Whispercast today—Amazon has put together an offering that undercuts Apple so dramatically that it might not just beat iPads to the classroom someday. Kindles should probably be there already. Read the full story at Gizmodo.