Apple Offers Keynote and iLife for Teachers

MikeXpop writes "Apple announced that its two new apps, Keynote and iLife, will be available for teachers for only $15, saving educators $113 (compared to the regular education price). Also, Apple is extending the deadline for free Jaguar for teachers. Both offers end March 31st."

Comments

Re:Weird move...

[Anonymous Coward]

iLife is free with new computers. You can also download everything except for iDVD from the web, or buy the full CD for $50 (standard price). Keynote costs $100, and, unless I am mistaken, it does not come with new computers. Microsoft Powerpoint costs a couple hundred dollars (standard price), though they have certain educational discounts as well.

Read the fine print

[tbmaddux]

From the sign up page for the iLife/Keynote discount bundle:

Enrollment in this program constitutes your consent to Apple contacting you by email or postal mail with news and other materials about products, promotions, and other developments that may be of interest to you. This program is not subject to certain aspects of Apple's Privacy Policy, such as opting out of follow-up communications.

Anyone else interpret that last sentence as a lifetime spam subscription that cannot be cancelled?

Re:Read the fine print

[tbmaddux]

You would prefer to pay the full price?

Apple's other educational discounts (such as the educational Apple Store) don't impose the same cost on my privacy. I thought the info would be helpful to anyone who got as stoked as I did about the price but maybe didn't catch the little blurb. I was surprised to see it.

In response to your question, I haven't decided yet whether it's worth the price or not for iLife+Keynote, but I can tell you I haven't signed up for any supermarket discount cards or the like... in those cases I would prefer to pay full price.

Perhaps someone who has signed up for this program or the "X for Teachers" one (which I see has the same language) could let us know if they're able to later stop Apple from "contacting them."

Also for Higher Ed. Instructors

[Llywelyn]

The article here only links to the deal for K-12 teachers, however, it also applies to full-time faculty at colleges and universities. Once again only in the United States. It is covered in more detail in their Higher Education section (go figure). As a reminder, Students can still purchase Keynote for $79 and iLife for $49 at The Apple Store.

Re:Anyone else notice something odd...?

[kalidasa]

this offer is available only to K-12 teachers and accredited Faculty members of post-secondary colleges - surely secondary school teachers are *most* likely to want/need these tools, and are more likely to be getting to students when they're both aware of the tools being used on them but also open to *uhm* suggestion...?

I think maybe you're getting American educational terminology mixed up. In the US, there's elementary education (Kindergarten, or K, for 5-6 year olds, plus grades 1 through 8 for 6 through 14 year olds; most school systems nowadays divide them up into K-4 elementary schools and 5-8 "middle" schools, but there are other variations), high school or secondary education (grades 9 - 12, 14 to 18 year olds), and post-secondary education ("colleges" are either 2-year Junior Colleges or Community Colleges, offerring the Associate's degree, or 4-year institutions offerring Bachelor's degrees; "universities" being institutions that offer graduate and/or professional degrees in addition to "undergraduate" (bachelors) degrees).