Apple has a once a year sale on Black Friday with this year’s deals being gift cards for iPads and the MacBook Pro but not in all countries. I’ve checked Apple’s U.K., Germany, France, Australia, China, Singapore and South Korea websites to see what Apple is offering. Overall there are gift cards for every iPad except the Retina mini but no discounts for iPhones, and there are no discounts in the Asian countries except Australia.
Nothing for any iPhones
It looks like there won’t be any early presents from Apple on the iPhones. It wouldn’t be expected for the 5s to have a gift card but given what looks like soft demand for the 5c it wouldn’t have been surprising for it to have had one. I suspect that Apple went through the calculation that it would cannibalize too much 5s demand and that the 4s is their low-cost iPhone.
An iPad Christmas
Every iPad except the mini with Retina display has some gift card associated with them. The iPad Air gift cards range in value from 35 Euros ($48) to 75 Australian Dollars ($68) so I expect the US value to be $50. This would be a 10% “savings” on the $499 16GB Wi-Fi model and less on the cellular and higher memory versions.
The iPad 2’s gift cards value range from 25 U.K. pounds ($41) to 50 Australian Dollars ($45). It will be interesting to see if the U.S. deal is rounded up to $50 so with the Wi-Fi version list at $399 this would be a 12.5% “discount”.
The iPad mini’s gift cards range from 15 U.K. pounds ($25) to 50 Australian Dollars ($45). I suspect that U.S. gift card will be $25 (Germany’s and France’s are 21 Euros or $29) which would be an 8% “discount” on a $299 price.
Source : Forbes
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