Re: Depends on strategy
Value Hiker
5/10/2012 2:49:58 AM
It is not a good idea to work just for perk. During the dotcom bubble, I had a friend who got two job offers, one offer came with a free BMW rental. To a new graduate, the "ultimate driving machine" is irresistable. Two years later, the company offering BMW went belly up while the other company had a successful IPO.
Ah, @Value Hiker, you got the much sought after employee discount. I think people actually hang around Apple stores and take cookies to kind looking employees so they can become friends -- and persuade the employee to make a purchase on their behalf.
The employee discount is pretty good-I believe they can buy 2 computers or ipads a year at 20 to 30% off.
I guess if you plan to buy a lot of Apple stuff you should apply for a job there. But I would feel uncomfortable in a Genius shirt, even though I have tried to make my kids believe I am one.
The information on the education discounts is interesting! Total hype.
@Noreen
Good point. My kids use my iPhone as a glorified Angry Birds gaming device. Expensive gaming!
Just saying, for somebody like me, there is lots of value on an IPhone when I got it for $150 via the Verizon subsidy and it does many, many things.
Re: Depends on strategy
Value Hiker
5/9/2012 12:56:43 PM
It seems that I was under wrong impression about Apple's educational discount, I bought two MacBook Airs for my kid through a friend working at Apple. I got quite big discount (around 30%). I was told that it was the educational discount.
Re: Depends on strategy
Bargain Bin
5/9/2012 9:09:51 AM
It comes out from time to time
Well, you've just made your feeling about Apple abundantly clear, @BargainBin!
Re: Depends on strategy
Bargain Bin
5/8/2012 3:36:08 PM
There isn't a single thing about Apple that isn't completely overrated.
Re: Depends on strategy
driven
5/8/2012 10:21:52 AM
I agree the Apple education discounts are totally overrated. At best, you save maybe $50 on a really high end laptop.
And this just in...
The Kindle Fire isn't as capable as the iPad and it isn't as connected as a smartphone — but its mix of price and features makes it extremely well suited to serve the underbanked. The prepaid card marketer Plastyc of New York is expected to announce an app for the Kindle Fire, Amazon's $200 WiFi-only tablet, this week. Part of the reason for Plastyc's focus on the Kindle is that the iPad, which starts at $400 (or $500 for the latest version), is out of the price range of many prepaid card users. "Our audience tends to be lower-income ... not everybody can afford an iPad," says Patrice Peyret, Plastyc's chief executive.
The point is, for some consumers, price matters.
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