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Apple Launches 2015 Back to School Promotion, Offers Free Beats Solo2 Headphones With Mac Purchase
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Agreed, a lot of people with their noses up in the air on this site seem to hate beats. Yet kids everywhere have them. Since this is a back to school promotion and the target audience is kids (including university kids), then this makes total sense.
Too much hating this morning.
You can EASILY sell these for more than what they gave you in iTunes credit, I don't understand the problem here.
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The gift card is the best promotion they offered. Considering this is a back to school deal, the gift card could be used to buy useful software.
How exactly do headphones help someone learn?
How exactly do headphones help someone learn?
The average college student (i.e.: someone who generally doesn't read macrumors) is going to love this.
A lot of people on MacRumors, maybe. But for the general public, a lot of people, mainly the ones going to college/school, don't have this idea. We of course hear about it all the time, so it's familiar to us that Beats are apparently garbage. I have personally never listened to them, but have heard the newer ones are doing better. Still not worth the price, but better.
We sometimes forget that we are just a small, be it knowledgeable, sector of Apple customers. The average kid sees all their friends with Beats, celebrities with Beats and Beats in Apple stores. So their mindset is that they want to be a part of the club. Apple knows what they're doing (most of the time). And this is just another example if you think about it from a business standpoint.
I remember the iPod Touch. Maybe they should have held onto a bunch of the old model and given those away instead. Even the lower value gift cards were far better than this crap.
There are better and cheaper things to be hooked on. Heroin springs to mind.
Not when eBay is going to be flooded with these.
They weren't giving away instantly "free" iPods. You still had to pay the $200 upfront for the iPod, which is still a lot of money when students should've been using that for applecare. Then you had to wait a few weeks for apple to send you a rebate check, on top of that wait a few days for the check to clear at you bank. If you hate the headphones? flip them for profit, no waiting for your money to return to you..
They're already hooked. They know kids and teenagers want them, but can't really afford them.
Yes, I got my first one through the back to school promo, it was amazing.
That's already happened.
Wow kids these days are missing out. I remember when Apple used to offer 10% off then gradually moved to $100 (to $200 off) Macs then to iTunes gift cards.
This is a solid move by Apple though to promote the Beats brand. One thing I'll give Beats is that they are probably the coolest looking headphones out there. Too bad they cost so much and are of average-bad music quality.
This is a solid move by Apple though to promote the Beats brand. One thing I'll give Beats is that they are probably the coolest looking headphones out there. Too bad they cost so much and are of average-bad music quality.
Yes. 14 day return period. Go in and say you want the BTS, if they say no, return the mac, and rebuy it.
You are within the 14 day return policy. Your store will "return" your machine and resell it on the same receipt with the promotion line for the 0.00 Headphones.
Hmm.. they already are. In my opinion they're giving the students exactly what they want, for free. Good deal.
Free printers, too! I got an iPod Touch and a printer with my macbook pro.
By allowing them to listen to their online lecture without bothering their roommate?