“Apple Computer is gearing up to launch its annual ‘Black Friday’ sale next week, in which it will offer price cuts on various Mac and iPod products in a 24-hour bid to usher in the holiday shopping season with a bang,” AppleInsider reports.
“The one day event extends from the company’s online store to its national retail chain,” AppleInsider reports. “About the same time Apple kicks-off its Black Friday festivities, the company is expected to announce “holiday store hours” at many of its retail locations. Unlike the Black Friday sale, the extended hours of operation will run through the entire holiday shopping season.”
AppleInsider reports, “Traditionally, Apple has pre-announced plans for its Black Friday bonanzas but kept specific discounts and sale items a secret until the day of the sale.”
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Second 30″, here I come…..
Consumers, consumers, consumers………
wow, have been on line configuring new mac book for one of my kids, guess I can wait till Friday
what kind of discounts are we talking about here?
I have a friend she wants to buy a Macbook in a week or so.
thanks
Wow, I think I’ve found the incentive I needed to pull the trigger on a new MBP!
We’re talking small discounts, for the most part. Silly for people to rush out in order to save ten bucks, isn’t it?
Entanglement
Discounts are modest. Probably about $50 – $100 off a MacBook. May not seem like much but they never discount them during the year. They do this every year.
i want a black friday in england 🙁 , as napoleon would say . .. “Gosh…lucky”
January…
me thinks there is a 50″ coming soon…
Black Friday will take on a whole new meaning for Apple when all of those iPods remain on store shelves as enlightened shoppers grab whatever will be left of Microsoft’s latest must-have creation: the Zune. This will truly be a dark day indeed.
What will the Apple Store employees do with their free time? They can try to come up with Zune FUD for the one or two iPod lemmings who might stop by. I’ve seen this time and time again from Apple–misinform customers in an attempt to sell their unimaginative copycat products and use their market share advantage to bully the competition. Good luck coming up with something Apple, as we all know the Zune is a technological marvel.
Try to sell against the generous and flexible WiFi implementation in a Zune. You can’t. Try to sell against the points system at the Zune Marketplace. Forget it. Position the iPod as an ultra-portable myspace-like platform where you can squirt pictures of drunk teenagers to each other. Not gonna happen. Consumers aren’t dumb. They want WiFi in their MP3 players, points instead of currency and pictures of teenagers partying. Looks like it’s back to the drawing board, Apple. Again.
Welcome to the Social.
i will order a custom macbook on friday if the discount is $100
I wonder about people like Zune Tang — how much free time do people like that have if they spend all their time on Mac blogs when they’re clearly not interested in Mac information and gossip.
Do Mac users troll Microsoft blogs just so they can post crap things?
Gee, get a life people!
My feeling is if you want to buy an iPod, great. If you want to buy a Zune, well good for you, too. Go on to a Zune blog (there must be a few by now, right) and bash the iPod’s failings and sing the Zune’s (limited) pleasures there. Not here.
@zune tang, WHAT? LOL if ya gonna troll, do research
Mike and Andy!!!
I look forward to Zune Tang’s Satire!!!!
you gotta realize he’s joking, and I bet he’s typing his thoughts on some type of Mac,
keep it up Zune Tang!!! your a hoot !!!!
Zune Tang: doin’ for the Zune what Baghdad Bob did for Saddam Hussein!
American tanks? I don’t see any American tanks…. – Baghdad Bob
Zune Tang – that was seriously funny. Thanks for the post.
“Zune Tang: doin’ for the Zune what Baghdad Bob did for Saddam Hussein!
American tanks? I don’t see any American tanks…. – Baghdad Bob”
or Bush jr saying “we’re winning in iraq”
It’s.
Satire.
Zune Tang is,whatyousay, trolling…
NOOOOT!!!!
Zune Tang,
Questionable idea to try satire on this site. Some of the readers are from, you know, Kansas or similar.
Zune Tang isn’t a troll. It’s a satirical post.
Cue: “zune” is a French Canadian slang term. Microsoft clearly didn’t do enough research in choosing the name for their device.
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…and the following week, Micro$oft will start off their winter sales season with ‘Brown Wednesday”
This is usually started by Bullmer going down to a CompUSA store and throwing out – no, not chairs – but gifts to the M$ fanboy(s) standing in the que.
This is, of course, the origin of the saying “When the Zune hits the fan!”
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Re: inflammatory posts.
Be nice on the poor souls, people. It really must be tough to be a MS fan boy these days.
They’re like fans of a dying car company, i.e. “We know we don’t have anything competitive today, but you just watch! Real soon our new (whatever) will be out and we’ll show you! It’ll be SO good that it’ll take back the whole market and send everyone else back to their drawing boards!”.
Yawn.
Even if Zune was a quantum leap better (which it isn’t), it’d still have to overcome iPod’s tremendous momentum. How many Zune ports are airlines installing in their planes? How many automakers are touting their vehicles as “Zune compatible”?
MS fans, welcome to the other 2% of the market.
…and the following week, Micro$oft will start off their winter sales season with ‘Brown Wednesday
…followed in turn by their “Brown Christmas” holiday promotion.
Ballmer himself will do a Brown Note presentation to rally MS troops.
Anyway we need to keep a close eye on how MS tracks Zune “sales”. Certain automakers like to count cars sitting on dealer lots, plus ones given to rental fleets, as “sales”.