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[–]redbullranger 21.4k points21.4k points  (90 children)

Happened around Christmas. You might be right

[–]Laloquera 7094 points7095 points  (65 children)

Not only thing that was happening. I was in there getting my laptop fixed and they were offering $150 gift card for anyone who bought a phone or laptop. Since people were buying stuff already the extra money made airpods a lot more affordable.

[–]wannaBbluth 183 points184 points  (11 children)

Oh man when was this?! Could’ve been great if this went on when I bought my phone

[–]WakeAndVape 457 points458 points  (8 children)

$150 at the Apple store is like $15 on Amazon, bro.

[–]BrothelWaffles 145 points146 points  (0 children)

This is the best kind of funny, the true kind.


You joke, but if you’re buying a new phone, that’s a case, a car charger, and basically half off AirPods. That’s a pretty sweet deal.

[–]ObligatoryGrowlithe 29 points30 points  (0 children)

That’s their compromise for “Black Friday” since they don’t have formal sales. Only real special thing they do other than student perks in the summer.

[–]shook_one 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only time they do sales like this is Black Friday. This year they did a 3 day Black Friday event, they usually do 1.

[–]the-silliest-goose 113 points114 points  (20 children)

When I bought my my MacBook Pro during Black Friday I got a $200 gift card that I used to buy AirPods for my girlfriend! You’re absolutely right.

[–]asshatlol 34 points35 points  (11 children)

Why would you buy MacBook Pro from Apple on Black Friday? I got one for $960 without tax from google express lol.

[–]shinystem 18 points19 points  (10 children)

I got a refurbished one from a fried 2012 pro for 400 bucks. Max everything. Screw buying new

[–]asshatlol 95 points96 points  (5 children)

7 year old used computer. That’s not a refurb.

[–]Impregneerspuit 17 points18 points  (3 children)

Mine is shiny

[–]Duckyass 18 points19 points  (1 child)

No, u/shinystem has a shiny. Yours is impregneered.

[–]cliffrowley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do they get starch masks?

[–]Imightbenormal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He has more than 1 USB port!

[–]byahseeker 11 points12 points  (0 children)

No one is selling a mac for that price to you unless they're a friend. Even now a max 2012 is worth more

[–]cheesiestcheese -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

Max everything from 2012 is obselete.

[–]niallasherlambda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not really. (I don't use Apple products, so I grabbed the specs online, might be incorrect.)

It's still a proper quadcore i7 at around 2GHz (i7-3720QM) with 16gb of DDR3 @ 1600MHz, and a 1880p display.

The graphics aren't great, but Intel HD 4000 is acceptable for most non gaming/rendering tasks, and the GeForce GT650m is likely useless for any modern task, but can provide a boost on rendering (still rather slow, but not too bad), and run some older games.

It can even run Mojave, (unoffically afaik)

[–]shokoru10 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’m just waiting for AirPods 2

[–]alixandrya 39 points40 points  (14 children)

In 2015, when Beats by Dre were a big thing, my parents bought me a Macbook Air for graduating and it came with a free pair of Beats. Weirdest promo ever

[–]MyManD 44 points45 points  (9 children)

Why weird? Beats is an Apple product.

[–]alixandrya 17 points18 points  (8 children)

Weird may have been the wrong word, but as a 17 yo high school graduate I feel like i wouldve preferred a gift card to use on accessories/cases rather than big headphones. I really don’t use them because they’re the ones that go all the way around your head lol

[–]MyManD 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Okay, gotcha.

When I was in college those giant Beats headphones were everywhere so maybe Apple just figured kids buying laptops for college would've wanted a pair, and by giving them away they would've also been reinforcing the brand awareness as well.

[–]TinyNerd86 22 points23 points  (2 children)

Because Beats are shit quality for the price. People only bought them because they were popular and they were only popular because they gave them away

[–]Zanki 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I got a pair really cheap, £50 for some Solo 2s and they're still great headphones. I have no idea how they're still working as I've used them so much, must have had them three/four years. Yes, they aren't the greatest sound quality wise, but for the price I paid, they were worth every penny. They were the cheapest decent headphones around when I was buying them.

[–]TSPhoenix 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In a vacuum Beats aren't good value, but they were a huge upgrade from most of the headphones people were already using. For people into music that were using buds before Beats were a good purchase.

[–]ClearAsNight 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Giving you a pair of Beats costs them way less than giving you an equivalent gift card.

[–]Venken 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For the headphones you buy, 20$ goes into the packaging, only 1.70$ goes into the bass and the actual electromagnet that produces all the noise your headphones hear i heard.

[–]ACoolDeliveryGuy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not if you bought Beats with the gift card!

[–]artskoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I have them? Mine busted

[–]IronPeter 8 points9 points  (0 children)

For real? I don’t remember apple stores ever discounting anything !

[–]Wilba1015 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s not a conspiracy though. That’s just marketing. They did that on purpose in order to either increase the average sale per customer, sell through their AirPod holiday stock or whatever other reason they may have to do that. Let’s not turn marketing tactics into deep state plots developed by Apple lol

[–]freeze123901 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You say affordable like that wouldn’t cover it all.. really how expensive are those little fuckers?

[–][deleted] 100 points101 points  (10 children)

IHOP did this too. They used memes on twitter to promote their burgers a while back. Worked pretty well from what I heard too.

[–]Spaceduck27 59 points60 points  (2 children)

Denny's tumblr does it better.

[–]Jacoman74undeleted 66 points67 points  (1 child)

Denny's tumblr is on some Galaxy brain shit.

[–]kieferevans 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Had to go check it out for myself, was not disappointed to say the least!

[–]15Warner 19 points20 points  (4 children)

So is there no actual IHOB? I just got back from a road trip to the US and we stopped at an IHOP (it’s a tradition and the food is good)

And my friend made a comment about all the signs and it’s all burger and fry places, and IHOP. It reminded me of that IHOB thing


Haha no there isn’t an actual IHOB. It was just a temporary publicity stunt by IHOP to promote their burgers through memes.

[–]15Warner 1 point2 points  (1 child)

My life is a lie

[–]RedL45 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I heard they did change like one store's sign in CA or something like that, obviously just for publicity.

[–]Vulturedoors 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Their burgers actually are good, too. The marketing succeeded in getting me to try them.

[–]TSPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd put money on Wendy's being directly involved in all those sexy Wendy pics that show up on Twitter.

[–]420meh69 37 points38 points  (1 child)

There was a ridiculous number of viral tweets about air pods on Christmas day

[–]redditor6845 5 points6 points  (0 children)

but that also makes intuitive sense because a lot of people would ask for airpods for christmas regardless


It makes sense to me it would be around Christmas though because more people were (at least maybe were) given them as gifts as opposed to just buying them themselves on a random Sunday. A new product’s rise in buys around Christmas would basically never surprise me, and if more people have that product more people will talk about it, making it more likely to be in memes.

[–]colnross 27 points28 points  (1 child)

You're right! I had been seeing people wearing them in the gym months before all those stupid memes and I was like, why now?

[–]1nvisiman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We're still running out of stock on them.

Everytime we get some in, they go out immediately. And we get at least 1 call a week about airpods.

People can't buy enough of those.

[–]Alternative_Area 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Edit 2 - No, it wasn't. Move along people, nothing to see here.

[–]redbullranger 8 points9 points  (0 children)

$50 has been deposited into your account

[–]WillSwimWithToasters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It isn't. This is the earliest version of the meme I was able to find when I went digging a couple months back.


While it makes a shit load of sense, I don't think Apple had anything to do with it at all. Plus. Anyone here that's been subbed to that cancer /r/okbuddyretard knows it's been a popular meme there since at least August, maybe September.


And then the 12/26 put-killing rally...

Right into the $AAPL guidance cut...

Wait what sub is this?

I'm never getting unbanned from wsb, dammit...

[–]redbullranger 1 point2 points  (2 children)

kek. You are far from home....

What was the bet?


NFLX 380.

Am I confined to shitpost on r/robinhood like a fucking normie?

[–]redbullranger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes with the rest of the unbaptized. Roma could’ve saved you