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Sons of Bitches
Filed under (Apple, Fulminations) by The Cubelodyte on June 29, 2007 @ 12:21 pm

Apple logoIt seems Uncle Steve has suffered another fit of generosity, doling out free iPhones to all employees, a little over a year after Apple kicked my PowerSchool colleagues and I to the curb.

I was initially going to dismiss the report when I saw a former colleague’s postscript to one of his recent blog posts corroborating the story, and quickly found that other sites like Engadget had also picked up the story..

I would just like to take this opportunity, as a former Apple employee, to state for the record that while this is awesome, and that I had not been particularly interested in owning an iPhone, you current Apple employees are all fuckers.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go finish my bowl of sour grapes.

 


Comments:
6 Comments posted on "Sons of Bitches"
Angry_Flower on June 30th, 2007 at 8:50 AM #

Well the 8Gb retails for 699. I believe that would be a taxable event. Taxed at the 40% rate. Keep hope alive that their bliss is not complete!


[...] I’m going to go play some more. And to explain the picture. One of my colleagues wrote a nice little rant about the Apple employees getting a free iPod. I kind of feel the same way, but oh well, I’m not an Apple employ anymore, but I still enjoy [...]


MoeMan on June 30th, 2007 at 10:19 AM #

You like???


MoeMan on June 30th, 2007 at 10:19 AM #

The Cubelodyte on June 30th, 2007 at 2:28 PM #

Angry_Flower: Well the 8Gb retails for 699. I believe that would be a taxable event. Taxed at the 40% rate. Keep hope alive that their bliss is not complete!

Maybe so… but remember when they gave the iPod shuffles away? Apple paid the tax on those. I’d suspect they’d do the same for the iPhone.

MoeMan: The following that is…
http://www.jeffdmorris.com/images/the_cube.png

Hey, the site looks pretty damn good on the iPhone! I hope you don’t mind if I snag that image for myself…

This site rendered on the iPhone


MoeMan on July 1st, 2007 at 7:38 AM #

Yep, no problem, that’s why I took the picture. I thought you might want it.

Oh yea, not to be technical, but the 8 gb retails for $599, and the 4 gb for $499. The point is that the cost to Apple is lower than the retail price, plus they have a tax deduction added to that so it only costs Apple a few hundred dollars, if that, to give the iPhone away to their employees.


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