iPad speakers in a classroom is not going to cut it, they are nowhere near powerful enough. in an office environment you can use the tv audio, or the video conferencing unit (in my experience even a 10man shop has those). again, for the very small percentage of people that fall outside of the 'masses' it is a problem, and I totally understand that. But none of the big brands care about the use cases that are not the masses. So you can blame apple, but look around and blame all the others as well.
Small and some medium-sized classrooms it absolutely does cut it. If you're playing for a theatre-sized college classroom of course it wouldn't.
But also, why does that matter? If the speakers don't work (i.e. cannot be engaged while connected to a projector) but won't cut it for the classroom, why is that better than if they can work but aren't loud enough? At least in the latter situation the user has the option and can make a human judgment. The user is a hell of a lot more qualified in that situation than some dev/PM at Apple who thinks they always know better than the user.
You are right, and like I said, it for sure is bad that it wont work for the common use case.
Should it support your use case? YES! Does it? no. Is there some kind of fair explanation? also Yes. Wether you like it or not (and to be clear, I also dont like it, but at least I can understand why)
Yes, as I tried to make clear in my post I'm replying based on my experience, which is based on the area I live and work in.
Almost all of the places I went have Logitech video conferencing gear, which dont need a single driver or minute of setup, as they simply JustWork (either with Mac, linux or windows)
