Comments on: Apple should use or lose Software Coupons

By: dothetouch

dothetouch — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:56:09 +0000

i have a emac g4 that came with 4 software coupons for iLife 05 + mac os x v10.4.

what are these coupons for?

By: MrMcMac

MrMcMac — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:22:39 +0000

Oops. Forgot one thing. The Apple OS X 10.4 media exchange deal from 2006.
Fill out this order form and enclose it with a
payment of US$9.95 plus applicable sales tax,
your original Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger install DVD,
and one original software proof-of-purchase
coupon for Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger for each CD
kit ordered.
But I refused to pay $10 for something I just paid for. Bought a DVD player for $279 instead. Matter of principle, don’t you see. :-)

By: MrMcMac

MrMcMac — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:17:11 +0000

OS 8.0, 9.0, 10.2, 10.4, iLife 08, iWork 08, and every Apple stick-on logo since my first Apple ][+. Maybe I should put them on eBay? :-)
Add to that over 20 odd notices of my lack of rights to use the hardware and/or software I paid for. Lawyers!
And no, I’ve never found a use for any of it except the stick-on Logos. They’re on my car, toolboxes, camera cases, and windows of my front door. I just like to advertise to prospective thieves that contained therein are the best equipment you can buy.

By: Melinda

Melinda — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:30:19 +0000

Fabulous that you posted this. Was just going through some old paperwork and noticed my software coupons from Apple for OS 10.3 and iLife ’04, wondered what the heck these were for and how come I never used them. Well, now I know. Thanks so much for the post. Very informative on what was quite a mystery for so long.

By: Russ

Russ — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:53:31 +0000

I just got Leopard Retail. It didn’t have any coupons but it did have two Apple stickers. I always figured the coupons come with the bundled version so if they updated the software within a certain period of your purchase you might get a discount. But I doubt it LOL

By: Jodi

Jodi — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:06:50 +0000

Shucks! I could be rich with all of the old coupons I have saved up, in our office, over the years. I guess I may as well throw them out… finally. Thank you for your reassuance that they are basically worthless.

By: nihon

nihon — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:30:03 +0000

I just recently purchased iWork ’08, and got four software coupons with it. I don’t think Leopard came with any, but I could be wrong. I’d have to check.

By: budros

budros — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:58:40 +0000

just received logic studio, sure enough, software coupons… maybe they’re not including it w/ osx, but certainly with pro software packages

By: Finney

Finney — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:03:14 +0000

Really? I always thought they were for like 10.4.7 vs. 10.4.8 upgrades, in case you didn’t have internet and couldn’t upgrade via Software Update.

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:46:51 +0000

As an IT purchaser of multiple Macs over the last several months, I can definitively state that as of the Core 2 Duo models shipping, Apple no longer is including the Software coupons. I guess after several years, they realized the pointlessness of it.

By: Zohar

Zohar — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:49:12 +0000

Hear Hear!
And I agree Joecab – they are for collectors, as proof that you were a mac owner since… what ever year (or version).

Well, with the coupon’s question up and running, there is another one: what am I suppose to do with dozens of Apple stickers?

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:10:31 +0000

Thank you! I received coupons when I bought 10.3 and 10.4 and two different versions of iLife. I may have also received them when I bought iWork. I’ve always wondered what the point was and I’m happy to see that I’m not the only one baffled by this.

By: joecab

joecab — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:47:08 +0000

well DUH they’re obviosuly there as collectors’ items

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:39:26 +0000

No kidding. I bought my first Mac when OS 10.1 had just come out (it was an iBook G3 700mhz). Since then I’ve upgraded my OS with every new release and I’ve even upgraded my hardware. Everytime I’ve purchased something new from Apple, I’ve gotten those coupons. Since I jumped onto the Apple bandwagon after their transition to the OS X era, I’ve always wondered what exactly they were for as when I’ve tried to use them to upgrade software, they’ve never been accepted…

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:28:19 +0000

I’ve been a Mac admirer for years, but I don’t have a Mac so anything I say may be a little inaccurate.

Whenever you buy a new Mac, it’s bundled with OSX (and iLife).
You don’t have the option to buy a Mac without OS.
You can’t install OSX on non-Macs.

My conclusion from the above is that whenever you buy a copy of OSX, it’s actually considered as an upgrade… it’s assumed that you already own a Mac, with a previous OS of course.

So yes, Apple can save a little paper by dropping the bundled coupons.

By: Kyle Korleski

Kyle Korleski — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:05:10 +0000

Here here!