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Apple's Back to School Promo Launching Wednesday With $100 iTunes Gift Cards?

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jeejeebu said:
I was pretty upset about this when I first read it, since I don't buy any music or movies or TV shows from iTunes, but the reminder that it should work for the App store (both Mac and iOS) has made me a bit happier about it.

Question: Can you get the student discount on iWork through the App store? If not, I may be back to being upset about this.

Edit: Hmm, it's only an $8 difference between student price and regular price for iWork, so never mind. I'm fine either way.
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IIRC it's cheaper to buy iwork on the app store than the disk with education discount anyway.
 
Razdom said:
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IIRC it's cheaper to buy iwork on the app store than the disk with education discount anyway.
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I see that, now. Good to know. It's too bad they don't offer a preinstalled version without the disc.
 
Ultimately I think this is great. As I am using the B2S promotion for educational purposes, (I know I know, strangely as it may seem) I can use it to buy software I'll use while I am at University such as Aperture and iWork :)
 
C0LUMBIA said:
Ultimately I think this is great. As I am using the B2S promotion for educational purposes, (I know I know, strangely as it may seem) I can use it to buy software I'll use while I am at University such as Aperture and iWork :)
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Of course, if they gave away something of $200-230 value, you could sell it and use the cash to buy the software you need, anyway. While I'm much more okay with this than I was when I wasn't thinking about apps, I'm still a bit miffed that the $200 I was thinking I would be able to recoop from my purchase (which will also be for actual educational purposes) will only be $100.
 
I'll be honest this thread was tl;dr.

I did read the first four or so pages and noticed a trend, people saying the people complaining about the promotion were being greedy. Agreed to an extent, however for those of us who are only just going off to college now,and were technically not eligible for past offers, this was our first chance to take advantage of the bundle and it was what we came to expect.

So yes, if it comes out tomorrow with a $100 gift card instead of an iPod Touch I will disappointed. Devastated? No I'm still going to get the MBP I've been eying for some time and I will definitely take the $100 gift card as well. I'll just be waiting patiently for my the new iPhone 5 so I can switch back to an Apple music playing device. (Switched to a BB from iPhone never owned an iPod Touch so BB became primary music player).
 
eXistance360 said:
this better be false, or else apple is getting ****ing greedy.

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Give us a Apple Gift Card, give us just a greater price slash to the product. Don't give us a useless Itunes gift card that just benefits apple. This is ridiculous and if true I will be waiting for an Asus UX21 instead of buying a macbook air.

Oh, and try 200 credit, not 100. What a joke..
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Yeah, right. So Apple is greedy by giving away something with a purchase of a computer? Sorry this upsets your plan but Apple never owed anyone a free iPod.

Go buy your Asus UX21 and enjoy it. High five.
 
iRobby said:
Why are so many people dissing buying a new computer just because they don't get a $200.00 gadget free. The value of the computer is the same and will still meet your needs.


The way these people talking is like they were buying an iPod to get a Mac instead of vice versa. - no iPod then no Mac shouldn't it be the other way. the motive being getting a Mac and as a plus get the iPod instead of the iPod being the motive to buy a computer?
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People sell them, give them as gifts, etc. When I bought my laptop last year, i sold mine for $180. For me and most other students, thats a good deal of money. If i was planning on getting a computer this summer and this proves true, I would buy a PC, simply because XBox>$100 worth of music that can be obtained in other ways.
 
This makes good sense for apple in a way. $100 of itunes and apps will cost them next to nothing, while an iPod probably costs them $50 or so to make.
 
skier777 said:
This makes good sense for apple in a way. $100 of itunes and apps will cost them next to nothing, while an iPod probably costs them $50 or so to make.
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Of course, the return on that $50 would probably be huge. I was talking to someone recently who said Apple would be smart to just give away iPads because they make so much back in app sales. (I disagree, because iPads need some value to be "cool," but I can see the benefit of at least lowering the cost a bit.)
 
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Actually if your logic is correct... then Apple would be losing money by doing the giftcard logic.

iPod cost to Apple: $50 (your number)
Gift Card cost to Apple: $70 (because 70% must be paid to developers)
 
skier777 said:
People sell them, give them as gifts, etc. When I bought my laptop last year, i sold mine for $180. For me and most other students, thats a good deal of money. If i was planning on getting a computer this summer and this proves true, I would buy a PC, simply because XBox>$100 worth of music that can be obtained in other ways.
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See, this I don't understand. So the apple is now 100 dollars more exPensive than before so for 100 more it is all the sudden not worth it over a PC? See I could understand this if they were equal priced computers but the Mac most likely already was much more expensive so you already thought it was worth hundreds more so it kinda boggles me that making it just 100 more all the sudden it is not worth it?

I can understand being disappointed but this seems to be more being spiteful (I'm mad at apple for changing the offer so I will punish them) then some logical way of looking at things (well now this is a better deal. If we are just looking at price the PC already was the better deal so obviously if you were going to get he Mac you thought it was worth the extra).
 
tigress666 said:
See, this I don't understand. So the apple is now 100 dollars more exPensive than before so for 100 more it is all the sudden not worth it over a PC? See I could understand this if they were equal priced computers but the Mac most likely already was much more expensive so you already thought it was worth hundreds more so it kinda boggles me that making it just 100 more all the sudden it is not worth it?

I can understand being disappointed but this seems to be more being spiteful (I'm mad at apple for changing the offer so I will punish them) then some logical way of looking at things (well now this is a better deal. If we are just looking at price the PC already was the better deal so obviously if you were going to get he Mac you thought it was worth the extra).
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Students don't have a lot of money. $100 can be a lot to some. at $999 (microcenter) the mbp 13" is pricy but considering the pros, decent compared to a $899 pc (more expensive cause its 13" with i5 sandy bridge). Say HP dm4x

Comparing the two comparable computers.

pc + xbox for $899 > mbp 13" + itunes card for $1100 (from apple this will be more)

The itunes card is good but many get their music from other sources and have no use for it. Its like getting free gas for a year from a promotion and then winning gas at half the price. Obviously you are not going to use the second promotion.

I don't know if my numbers are 100% correct but they should be enough to get the idea across.
 
tigress666 said:
See, this I don't understand. So the apple is now 100 dollars more exPensive than before so for 100 more it is all the sudden not worth it over a PC? See I could understand this if they were equal priced computers but the Mac most likely already was much more expensive so you already thought it was worth hundreds more so it kinda boggles me that making it just 100 more all the sudden it is not worth it?

I can understand being disappointed but this seems to be more being spiteful (I'm mad at apple for changing the offer so I will punish them) then some logical way of looking at things (well now this is a better deal. If we are just looking at price the PC already was the better deal so obviously if you were going to get he Mac you thought it was worth the extra).
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It's really a $400 swing, since you get $200 less from Apple [iTunes gift card is useless to me] and the equivalent of $200 via the Xbox 360 with a PC purchase. I'm not sure whether Best Buy's policy still stands, but you used to be able to obtain in-store credit for a product sold by Best Buy if you didn't have the receipt. If this is still the case, you could put that $200 toward a nice HDTV or other product. [And you used to be able to do this with an iPod.]
 
mjo404 said:
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Actually if your logic is correct... then Apple would be losing money by doing the giftcard logic.

iPod cost to Apple: $50 (your number)
Gift Card cost to Apple: $70 (because 70% must be paid to developers)
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Geez, you are slow. Why would it cost Apple $70? Please tell me. Apple just hosts the App Store and forces devs to use it. There is minimal cost to this. Giving away a $100 gift card costs Apple nothing. $70 of that goes to developers and $30 comes right back to Apple. If you wanted to factor in servers and labor, maybe Apple breaks even at worst. They're most likely making money on that $100 gift card.

Anyways, lot of whining, stopped reading past page 3. Another reason this is a smart move for Apple - iCloud and expanding users' iTunes purchased songs. Perhaps gives more people an incentive to use the service if they actually have some legitimately purchased music.

I was probably going to replace my 4.5 year old white MacBook with either a new MBP or Refurb and my 4 year old iPod classic with a new Touch if the old deal was in place. If not, I might have to consider something else. Probably not the Windows/360 deal. I don't even own a TV (could get it set on my laptop, but meh) and the laptops offered are okay. I'd rather get something with more graphics oomph for more than casual gaming
 
malman89 said:
Geez, you are slow. Why would it cost Apple $70? Please tell me. Apple just hosts the App Store and forces devs to use it. There is minimal cost to this. Giving away a $100 gift card costs Apple nothing. $70 of that goes to developers and $30 comes right back to Apple. If you wanted to factor in servers and labor, maybe Apple breaks even at worst. They're most likely making money on that $100 gift card.
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Remind me where that $70 to pay the developers comes from? :cool:
 
cirus said:
Students don't have a lot of money. $100 can be a lot to some. at $999 (microcenter) the mbp 13" is pricy but considering the pros, decent compared to a $899 pc (more expensive cause its 13" with i5 sandy bridge). Say HP dm4x
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Yes, but if 100 dollars is that big a deal to him, why wasn't he already going to get the PC which would be cheaper anyways even without any benefits to it? The Mac is not essential for going to school, a PC would do the job. And if he's that strapped for money, he'd save more than just 100 even if Apple was offering the usual deal by just buying a PC.

My point is is that if it was worth it for him to pay that much extra to get a Mac, deciding to scrap it over 100 dollars says more to me that he's just stamping his feet rather than just that much makes it unaffordable/no longer worth it.
 
bigp9998 said:
It's really a $400 swing, since you get $200 less from Apple [iTunes gift card is useless to me] and the equivalent of $200 via the Xbox 360 with a PC purchase. I'm not sure whether Best Buy's policy still stands, but you used to be able to obtain in-store credit for a product sold by Best Buy if you didn't have the receipt. If this is still the case, you could put that $200 toward a nice HDTV or other product. [And you used to be able to do this with an iPod.]
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Your math is wrong. Even if the card is useless to you and you couldn't sell it, it's still a 200 dollar swing at most. You're still paying the same for the mac either way, you're just not getting a 200 dollar bonus on top. And the Xbox offer is the same either way, so you can't really count that as a factor at all (least when we are talking about how much less Apple is offering this time than the year before. Or rather how much less they are offering you that you are all the sudden no longer willing to buy them).
 
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