New B2School MAC promotion... what a RIP!

[amycishere]

I find this promotion great. Do not want an ipod now anyway, waiting for new ones, and planed to spend a good chunk on the mac app store anyway, for me, I am very happy.

 

[bigjobby]

iPod Touches are overrated anyway, especially when so many people already own iPods and/or smart phones. In my opinion, choice of Apps/choons/movies is way better than a choice (or no choice) in hardware.

 

[LoganT]

I'd rather get a 100 dollar iTunes gift card than a iPod Touch that's going to be replaced with a better one in three months.

 

[Shanekarpi251]

I'm kind of disappointed because I actually wanted the iPod touch (instead of selling it off or something) and have been waiting for the promotion to come out but I'll take the $100 gift card without complaint. It's too bad it's toward the app store though because I'd rather have one I can use to buy accessories. Does anyone know if you get the free printer too?

 

[s.hasan546]

I don't understand the extreme hate for the App Store that some people have.

i guess it's ok if you need/want apple applications like pages/keynote/numbers. I just find their prices to be ripoffs. Like pages/keynote/numbers is $60 on the app store. When you can buy microsoft office student version for $80, which includes more than word/excel/powerpoint. i mean the point of apple's app sotre is just to take the developer's $$. Most of these developers would rather have you go ont heir website and buy the apps anyway.

 

[Surely]

i guess it's ok if you need/want apple applications like pages/keynote/numbers. I just find their prices to be ripoffs. Like pages/keynote/numbers is $60 on the app store. When you can buy microsoft office student version for $80, which includes more than word/excel/powerpoint. i mean the point of apple's app sotre is just to take the developer's $$. Most of these developers would rather have you go ont heir website and buy the apps anyway.

At least Apple provides the option of only buying the apps you need from the iWork suite. I don't see MS doing that with Office.

$20 for a premium word processing application is hardly a ripoff.

I would like to see the poll that you took of all of the App Store developers that shows they would rather you go to their website. Please post it to back up your claims.

Want to know something? I'd bet that the devs like that each and every Mac has the App Store, which gives people a central location to browse applications. I'd bet people discover applications on the App Store that they didn't even know existed. I know I have. Without the App Store, those developers wouldn't have received a penny from me.....because I didn't know they existed.

But hey, keep digging.....

Oh, and be sure to post the data from that dev poll.

 

[alphaod]

Apple used to offer iPod touches because when you got one, you were very likely to browse the app and iTunes stores to purchase additional items; their profit margins in those are high, so in the long run, Apple is still money off you for years to come. At the same time, you might have friends, relatives, or even strangers who see your iPod and want one for their own—thus further increasing Apple's revenue.

Now with the release of the Mac app store, Apple no longer needs to offer iPod touches to customers to have them browse the app store; you can do with on your own computer on your newly purchased machine; so instead you are offered a $100 gift card to "start off," so to speak.

So in short—before the iPod touch was the medium offered to have customers purchase media in the long run; now that's not necessary with the Mac app store, so you are offered a gift card.

 

[squeakr]

At least Apple provides the option of only buying the apps you need from the iWork suite. I don't see MS doing that with Office.

I stated the same thing in another post and someone pointed out that you can just buy the individual apps (Word, Excel, Powerpoint). They were at a premium and the costs of them added together were several times the price of the suite as a whole. They are at least offering them though.

 

[soco]

I have to agree with the concensus here. I think it's hilarious when people get so outraged that a company would give things away for free and not take their personal needs in mind.

I mean, you're basically saying, "Hey, you've given away X before, and that was really generous and exciting! But now, you're giving away X - 15% and I'm REALLY ******** PISSED OFF BRAH!"

Does not compute. It's like when people complain on sites like Amazon where multiple retailers may be selling the same product. Someone will post nasty comments on company X saying company Y is selling it cheaper, and therefore company X is ripping people off.

Really? Because it seems to me that company Y just happened to sell something cheaper. Does this mean that if company Y didn't exist, company X's price would suddenly be fair?

 

[irfan.kara06]

I'm kind of disappointed because I actually wanted the iPod touch (instead of selling it off or something) and have been waiting for the promotion to come out but I'll take the $100 gift card without complaint. It's too bad it's toward the app store though because I'd rather have one I can use to buy accessories. Does anyone know if you get the free printer too?

Yup, you can get the printer too, that offer is on all year

 

[Naimfan]

i guess it's ok if you need/want apple applications like pages/keynote/numbers. I just find their prices to be ripoffs. Like pages/keynote/numbers is $60 on the app store. When you can buy microsoft office student version for $80, which includes more than word/excel/powerpoint. i mean the point of apple's app sotre is just to take the developer's $$. Most of these developers would rather have you go ont heir website and buy the apps anyway.

If you don't like the promotion, don't use it. Problem solved.

 

[billnye97]

I like the fact that I don't have to do anything with a rebate. They are a pain in the butt. I'll take the $100 thank you very much.

 

[Gen]

You get a free $100, yeah what a rip...