How will iPads in the dugout change baseball?

Just in time for the opening of the baseball season last weekend, Apple and Major League Baseball announced a big product placement deal that will put iPad Pros in MLB dugouts.

Let’s hope the multi-year deal turns out better than Microsoft’s $400 million deal to put Surface tablets on NFL sidelines. That arrangement was roiled by users initially calling the devices iPads on TV, not to mention troubled quarterback Johnny Manziel using one to smack himself on the head—repeatedly—after a particularly bone-headed play. And things only got worse when announcers during the AFC Championship game told millions of viewers the devices weren’t working properly, although the glitch was later blamed on “networking issues.”

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