Steve Jobs: Free iPhones for Apple Employees

[netdoc66]

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



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."

Release them all "fly little fishies be free!"

 

[cjewby]

cmon apple retail.. call me back! hah

 

[Phat_Pat]

wow. thats quiet a deal.

 

[MacH4X0r]

is this a ploy to prevent employee hoarding of iPhones?

 

[Peace]

Cool idea!!

Good for you Steve..

Now just let us PAYING developers have Leopard..

 

[72930]

What about non-US employees? Will they get it when it comes to their respective countries?

Is the 17,787 figure US only?

 

[YoMamasPyjamas]

<Napoleon Dynamite voice> Luckyyyyyyy!

 

[skwoytek]

Smaller than my company's bonuses...

Still a good bonus.

 

[quigleybc]

Yet another reason why Apple is the greatest company in the world.

Good move Steve,

 

[ortuno2k]

Ahhhh...the nice benefits of working for a nice company.
Of course, it'd be real nice, if it's true.

 

[swingerofbirch]

I wonder if they'll have any left over for the people who actually make them? Although seeing as how they live where they work and only a few hours to themselves every day they might not need a phone.

 

[gugy]

nice gesture,

good job Steve!

 

[Teddy's]

Just like the Ford Series T cars.

And what a big chunk of new AT&T Customer$$$$$$!!!!!!!!!!!

Meanwhile, in other parts of the world...

 

[Stella]

Thats really great for Apple employees... nice bonus!



"The first leg is the Mac business, which Steve addressed by saying that they have the "best Macs" in the new product pipeline ever right now"

Apple *ALWAYS* say this...!! They have to really, they can't say otherwise.. i.e., "we've got a few lame iMac updates coming up.. etc etc".

 

[nickspohn]

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

Haha, arn had to edit that out

Least i saw it right when it was posted.

-nickspohn

 

[RodThePlod]

the ATT employees are going to be pissed

Ha ha that's funny

Getting a free iPhone is mega-cool, though and the top of the range, too!

Rod.

 

[p0intblank]

That. Is. Awesome! Seriously, that is really nice of Steve Jobs to do. Kudos to the best CEO ever!

 

[Gav]

http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/index.html
http://www.apple.com/jobs/uk/index.html

You know what to do.

 

[Mac-Addict]

Suddenly I work full time for Apple

 

[alansmallen]

Retail

do People Who Work In The Apple Stores Also Get Them. Please Say Yes, Please..........

 

[pdpfilms]

"The first leg is the Mac business, which Steve addressed by saying that they have the "best Macs" in the new product pipeline ever right now"

Apple *ALWAYS* say this...!! They have to really, they can't say otherwise.. i.e., "we've got a few lame iMac updates coming up.. etc etc".

I was just going to say this. Steve's comment means aaaaabsolutely nothing. I think I've heard him say this at every keynote, and every time he's interviewed about Mac hardware. Don't think this actually means there is any fantastic hardware "in the pipeline".

 

[nickspohn]

do People Who Work In The Apple Stores Also Get Them. Please Say Yes, Please..........

that is A LOT of iPhones.

so...

No


-nickspohn

 

[kalisphoenix]

A good tactic. Probably a lot of Apple employees will evangelize even more emphatically once they have one in their hands. I can see this benefiting the company in a lot of ways, and it doesn't cost an outrageous amount of money -- what, $10,000, if that? But it looks really good.

 

[mogema]

Hmm.. I only have 26 more hours to find a f-t job at Apple..

 

[nagromme]

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

And what phone are you using where the voice and data are free

The iPhone plans cost less for voice AND data than I am now paying for voice alone on a landline! They are very competitive rates compared to other services.

Nothing "outrageous," but good trolling and great MacBook suggestion