Apple employees get free 8GB iPhone

Darksaber · Jun 29, 2007

Steve Jobs has announced, that Apple will be giving all its roughly 17,787 employees a free 8GB iPhone. This even includes part-time employees which have been with the company for more than a year. This "giveaway" will cost Apple around 12 Million US Dollars when compared to the iPhone retail price. Should be interesting to see if employees will have to pay up for a AT&T contract to fully use the iPhone and its features.

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hat · Jun 29, 2007

I sense loads of 8GB iPhones on Ebay in the near future...

jocksteeluk · Jun 29, 2007

hat said:
I sense loads of 8GB iPhones on Ebay in the near future...

took the words right out of my mouth.

GJSNeptune · Jun 29, 2007

"Here you go!"
"Gee, thanks."
"If we see them on eBay you're fired."

Darksaber · Jun 29, 2007

hat said:
I sense loads of 8GB iPhones on Ebay in the near future...

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

GJSNeptune · Jun 29, 2007

Pretty soon we'll be able to better tell who works for Apple.

L|NK|N · Jun 29, 2007

It would make for another nice raffle though!

DrunkenMafia · Jun 29, 2007

Jeez that is nice of them.... wish they would give me one, I love gadgets and that thing looks like the mother of all gadgets!!!!

GJSNeptune · Jun 29, 2007

Looks can be deceiving.

newtekie1 · Jun 29, 2007

A great way to inflate your sales numbers...

GJSNeptune · Jun 29, 2007

How? They aren't being sold. If they include these units in their sales reports, they're flat-out lying, and Apple likes to be subtle about that.

Zero Cool · Jun 29, 2007

the iPhone is probably just gonna as inflated as the Safari

DaMulta · Jun 29, 2007

When I worked for sprint years ago they gave us all cool new phones. The next day Ebay had thousands of those phones listed.

[I.R.A]_FBi · Jun 29, 2007

iphone < goat droppings ...

russianboy · Jun 29, 2007

I think its going to be awkward making calls on that thing, too wide.

And only one carrier? bah!

WarEagleAU · Jun 29, 2007

Lucky punks.

Zero Cool · Jun 29, 2007

Darksaber said:
Steve Jobs has announced, that Apple will be giving all its roughly 17,787 employees a free 8GB iPhone. This even includes part-time employees which have been with the company for more than a year. This "giveaway" will cost Apple around 12 Million US Dollars when compared to the iPhone retail price. Should be interesting to see if employees will have to pay up for a AT&T contract to fully use the iPhone and its features.

Source: Think Secret

you even have to pay EXTRA after buying this pos to be able to use it fully... thats just so like.. apple!

WarEagleAU · Jun 29, 2007

well you gotta have a service contract with a telecom wireless provider to use all the features, at least the phone talking and sending features. Other than that, its like a mini computer or PDA with built in camera, music player, etc

russianboy · Jun 29, 2007

If I want that I'll get a laptop, thank you.

GJSNeptune · Jun 29, 2007

Or even a PSP.

newtekie1 · Jun 29, 2007

GJSNeptune said:
How? They aren't being sold. If they include these units in their sales reports, they're flat-out lying, and Apple likes to be subtle about that.

Actually it is very simple, you just sell the product to yourself before gving it away.

GJSNeptune · Jun 29, 2007

Okay.

demonbrawn · Jun 29, 2007

Yep. If I were given one it would be on Ebay in no time.

ktr · Jun 29, 2007

Darksaber said:
Steve Jobs has announced, that Apple will be giving all its roughly 17,787 employees a free 8GB iPhone. This even includes part-time employees which have been with the company for more than a year. This "giveaway" will cost Apple around 12 Million US Dollars when compared to the iPhone retail price. Should be interesting to see if employees will have to pay up for a AT&T contract to fully use the iPhone and its features.

Source: Think Secret

Thats funny, becuase now there is 17,787 new AT&T contracts for the phone :roll:

Apple thought ahead of time, screwing their employees.

I was considering an iphone, but where i heard that it was on 2.5G rather than 3G, forget it...DOWN with teh iphone.

mdm-adph · Jun 29, 2007

...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?"

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