Apple Launches 2011 Back To School Promotion In US And Europe, Features $100 Gift Car

Apple Launches 2011 Back To School Promotion In US And Europe, Features $100 Gift Card


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any idea when this is to end? hopefully near the end of august?

Usually it ends anywhere between 1-3 days to a week before they introduce new iPod's.

Is it not possible to get an iPod? If so, that's not cool.

As someone who already owns an iPod (and did when I took advantage of the back to school deal), this might be easy for me to say but I think this is a much better deal. First off, giving students $100 worth of software is still pretty generous. Secondly, and more pragmatically, such a gift card gives students a chance to purchase software at no cost to them that they otherwise might have had to purchase. I would have been thrilled if someone had given me $100 to pay for my Office 2011 academic licence considering that, as I said, I already owned an iPod. Sure, some who don't have an iPod might feel as if Apple burned them but they should be happy that Apple is still being quite generous with students considering that they have absolutely no obligation to do so.

While that is true, I'm not talking about people who don't already have ipods. Though, I'm sure that's incentive enough to purchase a Mac. I'd rather take an ipod, sell it after the rebate comes in, and pocket more than the simple gift card's worth of 100 bones. You can buy yourself a $100 gift card, as well as whatever else you want to cover the difference. If you don't have the motivation/time to do that, than a gift card is obviously easier.