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Apple Introduces Education Pricing for iPad Air and Retina iPad Mini, Now Starting at $469 and $379
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My point is every little bit helps and Apple in the recent past has been reducing it. I do agree its a bit meager but at least its something.
The issue I have here is parents of higher education students get a discount, I guess because they are helping pay or paying for the student's education. What about a spouse? I promise you my wallet is constantly lifted.
I would agree, they have been, as well as reducing the price of some of their systems as a whole.
I'd like to see the $50 app store or $100 app store coupon instead of just a $20 decrease in price come back to school time though.
It's so they can buy it for them and give it as a gift, or surprise them.
Even if it wasn't stated, Apple Retail has been doing that for years. Usually with just an acceptance letter where the last name matches.
To be honest, giving an EDU discount isn't enforced at all. Many employees just gave them out all willy nilly if it helped them move AppleCare and One-To-One.
Yeah, so they should write their articles to reflect that fact, not say things such as:
"...and marks the first time that Apple has included the iPad in the special program."
..which is completely factually incorrect. If they had added 'in the USA' at the end, then great it's fine, but there's more to the world than the USA. The source articles is even French, yet MacRumors only talk about US pricing.
Now there's a distinction between making the education discount even better, and introducing it completely fresh. It's hard to tell what has happened here because the article is so poor itself. Is this 'new' or 'better'???
Search for Microsoft Education Store. 10% discount ... Or for my surface 3 pre-order, the equivalent of a free type cover.
I believe the education discount is highly abused. Why would anyone buy a Apple product not using it? Even elementary schools are on the list. Anyone with a school aged child that uses the computer is entitled to it.
That's because Apple doesn't care about its customers as much as its shareholders.
The fact that you can get even better prices from resellers makes this pointless. $30 bucks off won't even dent the tax, especially here in California.
The only education discount really worth anything is the $200 off on the $2000+ high end models. Otherwise, if I can afford an $1800 machine to begin with, $100 bucks isn't go to dissuade me if I truly want it.
The only education discount really worth anything is the $200 off on the $2000+ high end models. Otherwise, if I can afford an $1800 machine to begin with, $100 bucks isn't go to dissuade me if I truly want it.
I don't see how anyone can complain. It's not a huge savings but it's 6% and 5% off the iPad Air and iPad mini respectively. In Canada the discount is smaller (4%, 5%) but it brings the prices down to US retail, which I'm happy about.
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I'll always take that education discount. Saved me $200.00 CDN on my 13" i7 MBpro when I got it. Paid lessor it, then what I did for my old '09 13" in the day.
I wasn't being entirely serious. My comment was meant to be a joke, so please don't get all serious on me!
If you can't afford food, then don't buy an ipad.When you're a student, £5 makes the different between being able to afford a kebab after a night out, and not being able to afford a kebab after a night out
Why don't they just extend this to everyone and be done with it? As someone else here pointed out, it's fairly easy to get the education discount no matter what. Besides, why are education "people" worth a discount? What about the rest of us?