Apple Giving Employees 25% Discount on Vision Pro

[MacRumors]

Apple employees will be able to purchase the Vision Pro at a 25 percent discount, which drops the price of the device $3,500 to approximately $2624, not including tax.

Employees were told about the discount in a memo that was sent out today, according to Bloomberg. In the past, Apple has offered 50 percent discounts on new products like the HomePod and the Apple Watch, but the Vision Pro is more expensive.

Every three years, employees are provided with a $500 credit toward a Mac, and that credit will also be able to be used for the Vision Pro, plus Apple is planning to reimburse employees that purchase the headset for the cost of any prescription lenses that are required.

Pre-orders for the Vision Pro begin tomorrow at 5:00 a.m. Pacific Time, with a launch to follow on Friday, February 2.

Article Link: Apple Giving Employees 25% Discount on Vision Pro

 

[jz0309]

Gotta send my resume over right now

 

[nattK]

They should offer the discount to registered developers as well if they want to encourage more developers to buy and build apps for the platform. If anything, Apple probably needs developer support for the Vision Pro now more than ever.

 

[Dulcimer]

Something tells me not many would care to take them up on that offer anyway. Not for Gen 1 anyway.

 

[coffeemilktea]

$899.75 off a Vision Pro? I wonder if I can get a part-time job at an Apple Store or something just for that. 🤡

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

You know if employees could get essentially $900 off a Vision Pro, makes you wonder why the damn headset doesn't even cost that price for normal customers. $3500 is absurd, $2500 is an easier pill to swallow.

 

[G5isAlive]

You know if employees could get essentially $900 off a Vision Pro, makes you wonder why the damn headset doesn't even cost that price for normal customers. $3500 is absurd, $2500 is an easier pill to swallow.

for profit?

 

[klasma]

Apple has around 160,000 employees, so if half of them buy a Vision Pro, that’ll cover the initial shipment of 80,000 units.

Not exactly sure what that would mean for Apple’s bottom line. 🤔

 

[erikkfi]

It’s much more tempting at 25% off, for sure. It’s still a good distance from the ideal long-term price sweet spot, though. In five years I think this headset needs to be no more than $1200 in the base config, although if they support them for longer, it may be easier to justify a higher cost. If I knew my Vision would get updates for a decade, I’d feel better. (Historically, the first generation of a new product gets snubbed with a short support lifetime.)

 

[friscokid345]

So…Apple Employees get the standard Apple employee personal discount on an Apple product.

In other news, snow is cold.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

You know if employees could get essentially $900 off a Vision Pro, makes you wonder why the damn headset doesn't even cost that price for normal customers. $3500 is absurd, $2500 is an easier pill to swallow.

Companies do this as an employee perk which is kind of a way to give employees some tax-free income, like airline miles from business travel. Apple probably isn't losing money even at $900 off, but that's not really the point of this discount.

 

[theguy56]

Apple tells its retail employees that the reason they provide steep discounts is to help employees advocate for products through personal testimonies by being owners of the products.

Fat chance of this happening with the Vision Pro. Tech bloggers are calling it a developer kit, but Apple is marketing it like it’s the next iPhone. Yet they’ve priced it out of almost anyone’s range, including their own employees.

 

[bomsom]

They should offer the discount to registered developers as well if they want to encourage more developers to buy and build apps for the platform. If anything, Apple probably needs developer support for the Vision Pro now more than ever.

Apple will charge developers a 27% commission on top of the Vision Pro retail price. /s

 

[Asarien]

Companies do this as an employee perk which is kind of a way to give employees some tax-free income, like airline miles from business travel. Apple probably isn't losing money even at $900 off, but that's not really the point of this discount.

The point is for advertisement. Apple employees evangelize Apple products more than anyone, and employees shilling the Vision Pro to all their friends and family and making them try it out, is the best word of mouth advertising anyone can buy.

 

[klasma]

So…Apple Employees get the standard Apple employee personal discount on an Apple product.

No, they only get half of the standard discount. The standard discount is 50%.

 

[surfzen21]

Can't wait to see what its trade in value is in 2025.🥲

 

[Crow_Servo]

No, they only get half of the standard discount. The standard discount is 50%.

The examples of new products that have had 50% discounts are the HomePod and Apple Watch, so it doesn’t sound like bigger products like the iPhone, iPad or Mac get that sort of discount.

 

[gund1234]

Apple tells its retail employees that the reason they provide steep discounts is to help employees advocate for products through personal testimonies by being owners of the products.

Fat chance of this happening with the Vision Pro. Tech bloggers are calling it a developer kit, but Apple is marketing it like it’s the next iPhone. Yet they’ve priced it out of almost anyone’s range, including their own employees.

including their own employees.
Apple employees get 25% off on all the products.
most companies do give steep discounts for their employees

 

[klasma]

The examples of new products that have had 50% discounts are the HomePod and Apple Watch, so it doesn’t sound like bigger products like the iPhone, iPad or Mac get that sort of discount.

I understood the distinction to be the introduction of a new product category. So the first Watch and the first HomePod. Maybe that’s wrong?

 

[Rychiar]

if the supplies are as constrained as they are I don’t see employees getting it anytime soon. Usually takes months before new products are available to them with like iPhones and such

 

[nostaws]

I had a low level job for Apple when they the iPod first came out. If I remember correctly, we got a discount on the iPod and basically could get an iPod instead of the equivalent money in our paycheck. It was an easy way for them to juice their sales, and we were all pretty happy to get the iPod. I had a diamond Rio mp3 player at the time and needless to say the iPod was amazing.

 

[Crow_Servo]

I understood the distinction to be the introduction of a new product category. So the first Watch and the first HomePod. Maybe that’s wrong?

No, you’re probably right. I figured that too. Maybe they don’t have data regarding the employee discounts of the first iPhone and/or iPad.

I did a Google search and supposedly per calendar year, employees get 25% off one Apple product. I don’t know if the product is selected by Apple or if the employee can just use it on the iPhone or Mac if they choose. Sounds like Apple chooses, based on today’s story, though.

 

[Apple Fan 2008]

That’s a pretty decent discount.

 

[topmounter]

Haha, that "Team Players buy an Apple Vision Pro headset thing for doing stuff" nudge during the latest staff meetings must have been highly motivational.

 

[Rychiar]

No, you’re probably right. I figured that too. Maybe they don’t have data regarding the employee discounts of the first iPhone and/or iPad.

I did a Google search and supposedly per calendar year, employees get 25% off one Apple product. I don’t know if the product is selected by Apple or if the employee can just use it on the iPhone or Mac if they choose. Sounds like Apple chooses, based on today’s story, though.

employees get 25% off most products. they just only get one of each category per year. like one watch or one phone