“Apple is set to give its retail employees a services perk for the new year,” Benjamin Mayo reports for 9to5Mac:
The company will giveaway Apple Music, Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade for free to employees starting in January.
The freebie will help Apple retail store sales staff learn about Apple’s slate of services and make it easier for them to explain Apple’s offerings to customers. Apple has rolled out this tactic in the past on occasion, like discounting employee Apple Watch purchases in 2015.
We aren’t 100% sure if this deal will be offered to every Apple Store employee, or if it will be limited to sales positions only.
MacDailyNews Take: No Family Sharing, but still a nice perk for Apple Retail Store employees!
Good way to boost the active user number and get kudos from the staff at the same time.
Bingo. “And we reached x-thousand users in the first 90 days!”
Paying users? Um… hey look Phil’s gonna zipline with a macbook!
Oh we’re gonna get a limited version of what everyone else in the country is already getting for free or not buying?
Kewl.
It won’t boost their numbers much: these things are counted in the millions, and retail employees total about 70,000.
Makes sense to me. Retail employees work hard and this is a perk that costs Apple very little. On the flip side, the employees will be able to speak to their favorite shows/games and help Apple sign up more users.