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Apple Gifts Retail Employees With Apple Music Subscription

3 month trial + 9 free months (promo code) = 1 year.

OR

9 months = new iPhone and iOS 10 (September 2016).
 
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I'm one of those schmucks who grew up pouring money in records and CDs - combined about 850 all up. There is no way I'm paying for music ever again. I've done my bit for the industry. But it's time the young whippersnappers started putting out some cash to sustain the industry you cheap b'stards. 10-15 bucks a month. That's all Apple music or its rivals cost. I used to pay 30bucks a CD. Yeah yeah, the music industry brought this on itself and music today is just tragic for the most part, but still, for that little amount of money, why aren't people subscribing?
 
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smoking monkey said:
I'm one of those schmucks who grew up pouring money in records and CDs - combined about 850 all up. There is no way I'm paying for music ever again. I've done my bit for the industry. But it's time the young whippersnappers started putting out some cash to sustain the industry you cheap b'stards. 10-15 bucks a month. That's all Apple music or its rivals cost. I used to pay 30bucks a CD. Yeah yeah, the music industry brought this on itself and music today is just tragic for the most part, but still, for that little amount of money, why aren't people subscribing?
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Because the culture of today's youth appears to be that they want everything for free, but even then it's not good enough for them.
 
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I wonder how the apple employees feel about Beats ? They got apple stuff last year.
 
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smoking monkey said:
I'm one of those schmucks who grew up pouring money in records and CDs - combined about 850 all up. There is no way I'm paying for music ever again. I've done my bit for the industry. But it's time the young whippersnappers started putting out some cash to sustain the industry you cheap b'stards. 10-15 bucks a month. That's all Apple music or its rivals cost. I used to pay 30bucks a CD. Yeah yeah, the music industry brought this on itself and music today is just tragic for the most part, but still, for that little amount of money, why aren't people subscribing?
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You own your 850 records. You always will. Many of us don't want to rent, in time we could spend the Same as you, and own none of it.

When I own my music, I do what I like with it, like play it on my iPod.
 
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MacRumors said:
offering an Apple Music subscription to all of its employees will have benefits for Apple, as it will allow retail workers to familiarize themselves with the service so they can better explain and recommend it to customers.​
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Boy you ain't kidding. I went in to my local Apple Store to get the Lighting to SD Card adapter. I asked if they have them she said, "What do you want to do with it?" I said, "So I can import pictures from my camera." She said, "I don't think you can do that, let me go ask." She came back and was like, "I don't think that is possible." I had to open my iPhone and show her the product on Apple's website and then explain it to her. Then she made it sound like I she knew what I was talking about all along. And then see said, "I thought you were talking about from your iPad."
 
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cmwade77 said:
Just guessing, but this is probably the only way they can sell the service now that Google Music just came out with family plans at a better price that have more features.
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The one thing Google has them beat on is that you can play Google Music in a web browser. That is how Apple Music should be.
 
iMerik said:
Aren't both family plans $14.99/month?
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I thought Apple's was $19.99, but Google Music definitely gives you more, at bare minimum, you get Youtube red included and that eliminates virtually all ads on Youtube. It also gives you the ability to pick exactly what songs you want to listen to and the library is far more extensive than anything Apple has offered.
 
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smoking monkey said:
I'm one of those schmucks who grew up pouring money in records and CDs - combined about 850 all up. There is no way I'm paying for music ever again. I've done my bit for the industry. But it's time the young whippersnappers started putting out some cash to sustain the industry you cheap b'stards. 10-15 bucks a month. That's all Apple music or its rivals cost. I used to pay 30bucks a CD. Yeah yeah, the music industry brought this on itself and music today is just tragic for the most part, but still, for that little amount of money, why aren't people subscribing?
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$30 a CD? This is how my friends and I did it back in the day: 12 CDs for the price of 1 through BMG music club

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...-more-bmg-music-service-ends-in-june-20090310

and sometimes they were half off...

At one point in the service's history, BMG offered "10 CDs for the price of half," meaning you could get 10 albums just for buying one-half priced CD, and that's it. The total math, after shipping charges, came out to roughly $27 for 10 CDs. Thus, we pretended on the subscription forms that our suburban home was an apartment complex, created a ton of aliases and signed up for the service over 25 times, raking in 250 CDs in the process.
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Then just "borrow" CDs from friends to expand your collection.
 
JimmyHook said:
Google lacks the matching features, live radio, and human curation. Not worth the money
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Google actually does have the matching feature. "Live" radio is just radio isn't it? I always thought that it was funny that they announced a 24 hour live station as a big deal. I've got dozens of those on my FM dial already thanks. Human curation? Yeah I guess you have a point there, but the benefit is marginal at best. I still hear the same crap on Beats that I hear everywhere else.

Google Music also comes with YouTube Red which is nice.

Not trying to say that Google Music is necessarily better, but the two aren't that different.
 
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Corrald said:
My company gave everyone a check for $450. Suck it.
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And my company gave everyone nothing. ;)

Gruntersdad12 said:
Billions, I mean Billions of cash in the bank and they get 9 months... WOW.
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Actually a year when you count the free three month trial. Seriously, companies aren't required to give employees gifts, especially employees that get stock options and bonuses and other incentives. I swear Apple could give every employee a top-of-the-line 15 inch retina MacBook Pro and people here would complain about it. :rolleyes:
 
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maxsix said:
The Apple I once admired is looking rather worn and tattered.
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You don't miss a single occasion to downplay Apple in your posts... This is a 180$ gift (earbuds+subscription): I'm sure your company is more generous.
Mine is not: a cake and a bottle of wine, $20 maybe
 
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