Steve Jobs: Free iPhones for Apple Employees

[Conner36]

do i need to explain

steve jobs just announced that apple employees get a free iphone by the end of july!

my dad who works on [edit] just IMed me!

 

[noahc93]

darn them all.

 

[Conner36]

he still has to pay the plan

 

[Le Big Mac]

darn them all.

But they still have to pay those outrageous data rates! And for phone service! For two years! They could buy a macbook for that!

 

[lu0s3r322]

wheres your source?

 

[elfin buddy]

wheres your source?

He said it was his dad.

 

[Steve1496]

Probably fake, but is this from the Apple Town Hall meeting today?

 

[lu0s3r322]

He said it was his dad.

thats reliable.

 

[neven]

Wow. That's a pretty sweet deal. I'm sure Apple Retail is excluded, though.

 

[Conner36]

just wait if will be announced some where formally

 

[Doozy]

Cool, Any other news from your Dad.

 

[Conner36]

just like apple employees got both shuffle versions

can it get any cool/maddening!

 

[Captnroger]

confirmed. A friend of mine is a sales rep for apple educational, it's true everyone gets a 8gb model.

 

[fishkorp]

it's not "everyone." it's all full time employees who have been with Apple at least a year.


....from what i read.

 

[LeeTom]

http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0706freeiphone.html

 

[Turkish]

The units cost Apple at least $250.00 a piece and Apple has more than 70,000 employees.

No way.

Edit -

OK Full-Time and Part time over a year. Believeable.

Doble Edit - Crap I'm wrong on so many levels...

 

[LeeTom]

17,787 full-time employees.

 

[Peace]

The units cost Apple at least $250.00 a piece and Apple has more than 70,000 employees.

No way.

I was a ADC Dev kit guy.When the first Intel iMac came out all Dev kit people got a free iMac.

This seems believable.

 

[Maui]

The units cost Apple at least $250.00 a piece and Apple has more than 70,000 employees.

No way.

Edit -

OK Full-Time and Part time over a year. Believeable.

"Full Time Employees: 17,787"

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=AAPL

 

[kevinwiz]

the ATT employees are going to be pissed

 

[lu0s3r322]

http://arstechnica.com/journals/app...-os-x-and-off-the-charts-macs-in-the-pipeline

 

[plumbingandtech]

Ha!

I posted that yesterday but some people said I was nuts.

 

[MacRumors]

Steve Jobs: Free iPhones for Apple Employees



According to ThinkSecret, Steve Jobs held a company-wide town hall today and announced that Apple employees will get free 8GB iPhones this July. This applies to all full-time Apple employees as well as part time employees who have been with Apple for more than 1 year

The phones are expected to be delivered to employees by the end of July, after initial consumer demand has subsided. According to Yahoo! Finance, Apple has 17,787 full-time employees.

Meanwhile, ThinkSecret suggests that Apple has about 3 million iPhones manufactured and will be releasing about 1 million of them into the channel this week in an effort "to avoid perceived major shortages."

 

[oscuh]

*hacks into Apple database and adds information to payroll files*

 

[explodingboy]

8gb?

confirmed. A friend of mine is a sales rep for apple educational, it's true everyone gets a 8gb model.

Has anyone noticed any recent reviews of the iPhone where the reviewer used a 4GB model? From what I've noticed, they've all been 8GB. And now they're giving Apple employees the higher-end model as well. Is it typical Apple behavior to give out the high-end models, or can I go back to dreaming that they'll increase the capacity before launch?