Apple Employees to Receive 50% Off Apple Watch and Apple Watch Sport Models, $550 Off Gold Model

[flat five]

Press release for investors, q4 2014:

" gross margin between 38.5 percent and 39.5 percent

that's gross margin.. not operating margin.

(wiki)
Gross margin is the difference between revenue and cost before accounting for certain other costs

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/operatingmargin.asp
Operating margin is a measurement of what proportion of a company's revenue is left over after paying for variable costs of production such as wages, raw materials, etc

 

[nando87]

that's gross margin.. not operating margin.

(wiki)
Gross margin is the difference between revenue and cost before accounting for certain other costs

Operating margin is a measurement of what proportion of a company's revenue is left over after paying for variable costs of production such as wages, raw materials, etc

Sorry, mistake.

 

[flat five]

Sorry, mistake.

it's all good

 

[epoints]

what about the shareholders?

Will shareholders get any discount? Tim, you are giving my money away to those who make money for me...Wait, that makes sense!

 

[goobot]

From where?

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/10/28/apple-spent-record-17b-on-research-development-last-quarter-6b-in-fiscal-2014

 

[OneMike]

This only proves how HIGH a markup consumers are paying for an Apple Watch.

Exactly correct. Win win for Apple.

 

[SHNXX]

Do the employees have to buy the watch by a certain time to get the discount?

 

[applicant]

TBH, they should give them away for free to Apple employees. Didn't Apple give every employee a free iPhone a few years back?

Mrs. Jobs gave a free ipod to each employee that worked on their yacht.