Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Back to School to Start Tomorrow - $100 App Store Gift Card Confirmed
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Well, not from Devs, who are going to be thrilled about this.
This is essentially ~50 bucks going from Apple to developers (-30% cut, and assuming about $20 spent on Apple SW).
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148a Safari/6533.18.5)
It's cause They kept us waiting for so long and now they come out with this cheap thing. I would of bought a MacBook pro over a month ago.
It's cause They kept us waiting for so long and now they come out with this cheap thing. I would of bought a MacBook pro over a month ago.
Smart move on apples part. It pushes the Mac App Store and they get a 30% cut from software sales. Days of free iPod might just be gone. 
I think it's great that Apple are giving $100 itunes voucher for free...
Are they still offering the printer promotion alongside this like they did last year? (at least in the UK).
I just hope they don't give UK students £50 as that's the next voucher down from £100...
Are they still offering the printer promotion alongside this like they did last year? (at least in the UK).
I just hope they don't give UK students £50 as that's the next voucher down from £100...
Good point!
Honestly, I would have preferred this when I bought my mac for school 4 years ago. Seeing that I spent quite a bit on software to get prepared for class.
I don't understand all this anger as Apple doesn't have to provide buyers with any bonus or incentive.
AMEN!
Most of the guys here are nothing but greedy bit**es
Apple doesnt owe you anything, this is just a BONUS
Don't forget - Angry Birds is $4.99 on the Mac App Store, so you'll only get 20 copies of Angry Birds at that rate. I suppose you could go for the iPhone version of the game, but sometimes I think even one copy of Angry Birds is one too many.
I suppose because only 7 per cent of the developers at WWDC said they intended to code for the Mac, Apple feels like it really has to push the Mac App Store. Sorry...my girlfriend loves her 8GB iPod Touch. If she didn't have that, she couldn't spend money in the App Store. Most people seem to want apps for their iDevice, not their Mac. She's never once used the Mac App Store.
Good God I hope not! And I do hope they release the less-popular printer rebate, too.
But I wonder, did the Japanese BTS actually include iPods this year, or was that a giftcard too? If its the former I wonder why that is... I mean its probably based on the popularity of the iPod in the US and Japan markets but still...
$100 gift card in which Apple gets a 30% cut on apps so Apple is only giving out $70 instead of $200. A bit too steep of a cut for those students...
I guess iTunes would be different though.
I guess iTunes would be different though.
Just found that the US still get the printer promo: http://www.apple.com/promo/
No promotions are currently running in the UK. Interesting to see what they will offer us (if anything)
Another Amen!
This thread should be locked as we have an idea what the rest of the responses will be.
So it seems this promotion costs Apple about the same amount of money vs. the old iPod touch promo....and despite Apple now being able to sell more iPods at retail...the perceived value to customers is WAY LESS! That equals ineffective promotion (at least for a year or two until customers forget and are excited about the iTunes cash...especially those that just sold the 8GB iPod Touch.)