Here’s the problem…  Schools don’t license applications one user at a time.  They buy bulk licenses for a whole classroom, a whole school, or a whole district.  The app store doesn’t really provide any way to do that.  Sure, the school district could set up an “enterprise” developer arrangement with Apple and then get the vendor to upload the program, but that requires more work on the part of the district to purchase those applications than it does to buy traditional educational apps.  Schools are as strapped for technical resources as they are for cash, so this problem alone takes much of the luster off the iPod Touch as an instructional platform.

Let’s hope someone at Apple notices.