Next, I want to talk briefly about volume purchase program, what Apple's VP program allows you to
do is designate yourself or someone else in your organization to purchase apps for distribution to manage
the iPads or provide them as redeemable codes to users in your organization.
So I'm going to go into the education store because that's where my account is.
All right, now, once I've signed in, I can see that I have a balance here that shows you how much
credit you purchased, credit on the App Store through purchase order or through credit card card,
something like that, depending on your situation.
And basically what you're provided with is a media type dropdown.
You can do iOS apps, Mac apps or books for the eBook store or all.
And you can just go in here.
And type in any kind of app, lets go ahead and do.
Railroad tycoon.
Very educational.
So you can see as I searched that I see the various different iPad apps, iPhone apps.
Mac apps.
And books, so this gives me the ability to go in and select these different things.
So I'm going to go ahead and actually go with Sid Meier's radio railroads for the Mac because that is
the closest thing to railroad tycoon I'm going to find, I think, at this point.
So a few things that you can see once you've selected an app that you want to purchase, you have the
ability to enter a quantity and some apps will give you the ability to give you a price break.
This does not it's 999, regardless of how many you buy.
So if I want to buy ten of these, I get my subtotal here and then I have my distribution type redeemable
code.
It's basically going to give me a spreadsheet of codes.
I can distribute those codes of their one time use so I could give them to a colleague.
They would take the take the one code and enter it in and download it and redeem it.
They've now basically transferred ownership of railroads from my organization to their ability that
can be their personal applied.
I'm basically gifting them the app.
There's no way to get it back.
The other option, which is much more popular, especially in organizations where there's high turnover,
students, different applications that need to be used in different classes or different use cases is
managed distribution.
And what manage distribution allows you to do is use an MDM solution and then.
Bring in those 10 seats that I'm purchasing.
Assign them out to 10 users and then at a later date, pull them back from all 10 or a subset of them
who don't need them anymore and then assign them to other users.
So you're basically renting out the apps to users in your organization, but the organization retains
ownership of all those licenses.
So that's a more popular way of doing that in a large organization.
So I can choose manage distribution, I can hit review order and it'll go through or purchase it.
And I'm not going to go any further than that on this because I don't actually want to buy these.
Now, the other thing you can do, and I'm just going to go back to all clear this out.
And find a different app here.
Let's go with.
Let's try pages.
So here's pages.
And it shows that it's a free iOS app.
But I can use it because it's free, I can use them for managed distribution so I can still go in and
purchase one hundred copies of these and I can do the review, the order, and I can collect those.
And since those are free, I can now manage and distribute those via an MDM as well.
So just because it's a free app doesn't mean that it's not a useful thing to use PvP for.
So I'll cancel all of that as well.
All right, let's try something else, let's try pixel meter, so popular alternative to Photoshop for
the iPad.
So here's Pixel Meter here.
And so what's really cool about pixellated is that they actually do have a price break for quantity,
so they're 499 each, up to 20 units and then more than 20 they're to forty nine.
So, you know, if you've got, you know, the need for it and you know you're going to have at least
20 people using it, even if it's in a managed distribution, get the price break.
So here you can go and put in 20.
Here's my total managed distribution review in order.
And go from there.
So that's volume purchase and why you may want to use that either for paid apps or free apps, and the
pricing will depend on the publisher, obviously, and whether or not they provide a price break over
a certain quantity.
And if you're using the business or the academic store.