Apple employees get free 8GB iPhone

Zero Cool · Jun 29, 2007

mdm-adph said:
...why is this news? I'm sure companies do this all the time -- the added publicity they get from their employees walking around with their new products and the sales that it produces more than offsets the initial cost of giving them out to their workforce.

What's going to be next in the "news?"

This just in -- Steve Jobs takes a dump, with an iPhone!
Someone sees an iPhone on TV!
Some guy walks with an iPhone down a street!

quit bitchin,

did Apple give their new iPods to all their employees? no

I didnt know about this

mdm-adph · Jun 29, 2007

This just in -- some people apparently still think that companies perform benevolent acts out of the goodness of their own hearts and not out of concern for their bottom line.

More at 11.

Zero Cool · Jun 30, 2007

hahhaha

http://search.ebay.com/search/searc...=1&price=1&saprclo=300&saprchi=&fsop=1&fsoo=1

Dippyskoodlez · Jun 30, 2007

Darksaber said:
I actually wanted to write that into the news as well, but I thought we will see a load of these on ebay even if the employees are not allowed to sell them. Plenty of people will try making a buck of this launch.

cheers
DS

These wont be on ebay. (well they may be there, but don't expect to make money like a wii or xbox 360 unless someones an idiot)

Because theres no (major) shortage.

Also, this is really no different from a company that makes laptops giving their tech support people all a laptop.

Employees familiar with device are better suited to doing their jobs. Employees enjoy free stuff. Employees show off awesome free stuff to any/everyone they come in contact with = more free publicity.

Business decisions are so complex these days.

Also, if I were an employee getting a free $600 phone, no way in hell would I sell that sucker. Its an iPhone after all.

Zero Cool said:
quit bitchin,

did Apple give their new iPods to all their employees? no

I didnt know about this

Employees get 2 hardware discounts a year.

and its a pretty damn good discount.

joinmeindeath417 · Jun 30, 2007

once you quit apple the phone explodes, that'd be great...

Dippyskoodlez · Jun 30, 2007

joinmeindeath417 said:
once you quit apple the phone explodes, that'd be great...

If you hate your eyebrows.

PrudentPrincess · Jun 30, 2007

GJSNeptune said:
Or even a PSP.

I set up text messaging on my PSP, and I'm getting MIC support for Skype. :laugh:

hat · Jun 30, 2007

Are you overclocking?? :rockout:

joinmeindeath417 · Jun 30, 2007

Dippyskoodlez said:
If you hate your eyebrows.

nah just saw the new die hard movie so im all about things exploding for a little while

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