yes it will because if they needed more storage, they do not have to pay for it.
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New Perk Gives Apple Employees 50GB of iCloud Storage
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yes it will because if they needed more storage, they do not have to pay for it.
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We live in an age of entitlement where nothing is ever good enough until everyone makes the same amount of money.
Why don't you delete you oldest backup ?
I don't know... I only really thought about backups and space after seeing this article!
Why wouldn't they? They always have for years and years now. Why would that suddenly change? Having said that, people at corporate get a nicer discount than the 2nd rate employees at the Apple Store.
The discount is $500 off a Mac, $250 off an iPad, and free 50GB of storage. If you add them all together, that comes to an $850 value. That doesn't go far in covering the cost of an employee's pay. Not to mention that to Apple, they're not really losing much cash by offering these deals to employees. Giving them iCloud space doesn't cost money like a bonus or something would. And discounts on computers don't hurt Apple's pocketbook much, either, at least not in these kinds of quantities. It's much cheaper for Apple than paying wages to a bunch of employees.
Where is the list of best companies to work for that says Apple is #1? Sure they make great consumer products, but actually working there?
I'm sure yer looking in the wrong place if you think a $8.33 a month perk is a reason to work at Apple. I think you can drink more than $8.33 a month in free coffee at a lot of other places.
What would give Apple employees a great perk is 15% off employee stock or actual anual stock bonuses. Even if its two shares a year. Those are likely to pay higher dividends than 50GB of icloud storage. Just sayin...
Funny, I'd like iTunes Match to offer some options and actually work correctly. POS can't even determine between clean and explicit content let alone give a user any creative control over it.
Because happy, enthusiastic employees who use your product in their personal lives are invaluable for ground-level retail, and therefore it's beneficial for retail companies to facilitate this.
If Steve were around this never would have happened.
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I highly doubt it costs them more than like fifty cents to do this per employee (assuming they use the whole 55 GB). Apple can get hard drives for dirt cheap, they already have an Internet connection, and the overall power usage for these hard drives does not even begin to compare to the overall power usage of iCloud.
It's not about entitlement. It's about showing your employees appreciation. Yes, they get a salary but that is not really an appreciation in itself.
I realize this, but Apple has been under scrutiny because they do not give their employees enough perks because of how well their stores have been doing. They get a huge discount on apple computers. When I worked at Best Buy we got zilch on computers. It just seems like employees are mad because they aren't getting enough. The discount is plenty. Do your job.
And any Galaxy S3 owner gets 50GB free Dropbox space (Sprint, TMobile), not just Samsung employees
That makes me think of when I was working as a mechanic in San diego in the 80's. The owner would give a cash bonus (small but appreciated) every christmas. A mcdonalds owner bought the business (several locations) and when christmas hit he gave everyone a snall dried fruit plate instead (kind of a surprise that day). He said he was doing it because people would just drink up the bonus money and not take it home to their family. He was a jackass, people started leaving in droves, they became the mcdonalds of repair places.
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I paid 5.00 on fiver to max out my dropbox referrals. Worked like a charm, had it in under 3 days. I have 22 gigs now.
I have 50 on box, but not near as good.
There is also a way for anyone to get the 50 (48 actually) even on other androids. I now have 70 gigs on dropbox, 48 is for 2 years only.
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Exactly. iCloud is just useless IMO. I don't see any reason to backup my ios devices over there
just another way of getting employees to sell what they know.
salary bump + iCloud perk ≠ employee retention
then again, tim cook gives a rats ass about that, innovation and customer experience. it's all about the margin now.
salary bump + iCloud perk ≠ employee retention
then again, tim cook gives a rats ass about that, innovation and customer experience. it's all about the margin now.
my Photos backup on my 32GB iPhone would bump me over the 5gb limit.
when i joined iCloud I had just 100-200mb free so i had to remove backups of Photos.
really wish there was a Photostream for Videos
Well, I think giving a discount on a computer to someone working at a computer store is a lot better than a mechanic getting a fruit plate. The computer discount is still a great deal for the employees...it just doesn't cost Apple a full $500 per employee, that's all. It's still a lot more generous than what most companies give out nowdays...which is nothing.
I am very close to using the 5 and I am not as say a photofreak.
My backup of my iPad is 3.9GB & iPhone is 1GB
I luckiy have 20GB due to the MobileMe merge and all.