Apple to Give Employees $500 Off Macs and $250 Off iPads

Thursday January 26, 2012 12:20 am PST by Arnold Kim
According to 9to5Mac, during today's town hall meeting, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced to employees that they would get $500 off Macs and $250 iPads.

The new discount program starts in June 2012, and can only be used once every 3 years. Employees also need to have been working at Apple for at least 90 days. The discount is reportedly for both corporate and retail employees. The discount is said to exclude the Mac mini.

Apple employees presently are allowed a one-a-year 25% discount on Apple systems. One report even claims that this discount will remain in place alongside the new discounts.

In 2007, shortly after the original iPhone's launch, Apple had announced a similar perk for employees. At that time, Steve Jobs announced that all full time and part time Apple employees would receive an 8GB iPhone.

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MonkeySee....
105 months ago

Discounted macs?

*sigh*

Bad business idea. Sounds like a return to the bad old days of Apple in the 90's where there were a million different pricing points and special ways to get discounts (educational, business, yada yada yada).

Steve Jobs was right. Have a simple, single price point so that all customers are feeling like they have a similar consistent, and slick appearance.

Providing deep discounted products, even when provided to employees, only degrades the perception among consumers about the value of the product, which is one reason that Apple is capable of maintaining its high margins. Why should I pay full price for an item that is worth only half as much to the people selling it to me? That will be the perception.

For example: "Hey, my nephew worked for apple for one month and bought his iPad 3 for $250. Why the heck should I pay $600 to get one?" Good question.


Are you serious?

I don't think anyone in their right mind would begrudge paying for a product a member of staff is getting at a discount. :confused:

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Oh how generous. Such a big deal. Audi, Volkswagen, Mercedes, and Porsche pay each of their employers an annual bonus of several thousand Euros, depending on revenue.

Shame on Apple.


My goodness. MacRumour members are on top form today :rolleyes:
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arn
105 months ago
according to one report, the discounts stack. 25% + $500 off.

arn
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jayhawk11
105 months ago
On the retail side, working for Apple sucks. You get crapped on a lot by customers and the innovation isn't there like it is at corporate. It's really no different than any other retail gig.

Side note, this discount is an *additional* $500 off every three years. They still get the 25% off once a year.
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jackc
105 months ago

Oh how generous. Such a big deal. Audi, Volkswagen, Mercedes, and Porsche pay each of their employers an annual bonus of several thousand Euros, depending on revenue.

Shame on Apple.


You should try to rescue the exploited workers. I suggest carrying them out on your shoulder one-by-one, and bring the media.
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spazzcat
105 months ago

I wonder what discounts they give to Foxconn employees #laborlaws


Well they are Foxconn employees, so why would they get an Apple employee discount?
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Hellhammer
105 months ago
Somehow, I just became interested in working for Apple...
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MovieCutter
105 months ago
Still not worth the BS you have to deal with from customers.
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MattGintx
105 months ago

So you'd take a pay drop of a couple of thousand dollars for what amounts to basically 250$ added revenue per year ?

Or maybe your current job doesn't pay more than a janitor job ?

Frankly, this is a nice gesture for employees, but hardly a reason to quit your day job and take a salary cut over. Apply to work for Apple because the position, advantages and salary are what you want, not because you get a discount on a Mac.

With my current job, I can easily afford that 500$ and I doubt Apple has any positions in Quebec that can live-up to my job (and I can't move to the US to fill positions that would).



This wreaks of arrogance. Great for you if you make more then an apple retail employee. Plenty of people don't and the discount for those that work apples lower paying jobs im sure is helpful. I'm amazed at the attitudes I see on this board.
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spazzcat
105 months ago

Oh how generous. Such a big deal. Audi, Volkswagen, Mercedes, and Porsche pay each of their employers an annual bonus of several thousand Euros, depending on revenue.

Shame on Apple.


You really think their employees don't get cash bonus, this just a cherry on top of that...
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MonkeySee....
105 months ago

Visit the programming and OS X forums once in a while. Especially, look at MC/Space/Expose threads and most programming topics where I reply.

I have plenty of positive stuff to say about Apple and their products. Your selective view is just that : selective. If you don't like my posts, feel free to ignore them instead of jumping down my throat. I'm not 100% Apple, I'm not 0% either. Again, there 99 integer numbers between those 2 values.

And Monkeysee... derailed the conversation of this into a "respect and believe in" thing, I was replying to that comment specifically.


Haha. I derailed the thread????
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