Apple Launches 'Back to University' Promo in Australia, New Zealand, and Brazil Offering Free Beats With Mac or iPad Pro Purchase

[H2SO4]

Nope. Students fundamentally spend other people's money: parents, loans, scholarship... They don't benefit directly from a price drop, but they benefit from free stuff.

Who cares if they spend other peoples money? If you don't have to spend X money on A, you have more left to buy B even if that B is beer. They therefore benefit from the price drop.

 

[ozziejeff]

Why they don't just have a cut the price promo instead? Overstock on the beats to get rid of?

I just bought the iPad Pro 12.9 256gb wifi with this promo, with student pricing it’s actually $80 off retail price on any iPad Pro model on top of the free Powerbeats3 earphone.

 

[Tech198]

Luckily students

 

[ksec]

Back to School happens in Summer or few weeks before School Opening, when you are suppose to prepare for Schools.

But Nations in Southern Hemispheres start in early January, as in now. You don't buy new stuff when you start, you buy it BEFORE you start, right?

I could give it to Apple because they don't want Christmas and Back to School mixed up, but South Korea? They start their School year in August / November.

 

[partsofspeech]

Promotion with Beat 1 makes Apple so cheap!

 

[Enclavean]

Nope. Students fundamentally spend other people's money: parents, loans, scholarship... They don't benefit directly from a price drop, but they benefit from free stuff.

This is a ridicolous statement. A lot of us work part time during the semester or full time in the summer. And even those who do get money from their parents how would they not benefit from a price cut? Lets say their parents gave them $1000 to buy a new laptop, would they benefit from a price drop or beats?

 

[Wanted797]

"With the purchase of an eligible Mac, which includes the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook, Mac Pro, and iMac Pro, students can get a free set of Beats Solo3 headphones, or Powerbeats3 headphones. Studio3 headphones are also available at a discounted price of NZ$40.00 in New Zealand, A$50.00 in Australia, and R$ 350,00 in Brazil."

I think theres a typo here. AUD is usually stronger than than the NZD so it doesn't make sense for NZ to be paying less.

 

[Shiro_Simba]

Something for free is better than nothing

 

[charleswhalley]

Maybe this is an indication we will finally see Beats 4 with USB-C.
My other half has been holding off on buying a set for this very reason.

Once Tim has got his back to uni promo out of the way (selling old stock) we may actually see some product refresh on the Mac front. Here is hoping....

 

[Souponastick270]

It works the other way round right ? So I can I get a free Mac of my choice when I buy any Beats ?

 

[scottinlexky]

beats absolutely suck.

 

[asiga]

These University promos are moving the Beats exceeding stock from Apple to Ebay

 

[partsofspeech]

When Steve Jobs sells computers to college students, he expects them to become thinkers and creators. Nowadays, Apple sells bling-blings to trend-following, hip-thirsty, debt-loaded college sheep.

 

[vnrwka]

Back to School happens in Summer or few weeks before School Opening, when you are suppose to prepare for Schools.

But Nations in Southern Hemispheres start in early January, as in now. You don't buy new stuff when you start, you buy it BEFORE you start, right?

I could give it to Apple because they don't want Christmas and Back to School mixed up, but South Korea? They start their School year in August / November.

School year in South Korea starts in Feb~March actually....