Apple Inc. Black Friday Sale 2013 Confirmed!
Apple Inc. confirmed its Black Friday Sale 2013 event through its Australian web site teasing that "The one-day shopping event is Friday, 29 November."
Apple Black Friday Sale 2013 is happening both in-store and online. Shopping will start at 12:01 am and end at 11:59 pm AEDT.
The Australian Web site has yet to confirm the deals it will be offering, but keep your fingers cross that Apple Inc. will make the holiday shoppers satisfied.
Compared to Apple Inc.'s Black Friday 2012 event, here are the predicted discounts that Black Friday shoppers can get for 2013, according to Gotta Be Mobile.
- $41 off for the iPad Air and iPad 2
- $21 off for the iPod touch
- $101 off for the MacBook Air
- $101 off for the MacBook Pro with Retina display
- $101 off for the iMac
As a tradition, Apple Inc. does not offer an iPhone Black Friday discounts, and there were no hints that it will also be offering discounted iPad Mini 2 or iPad Mini.
For those who want to expand their shopping choices, here are some Apple Black Friday Sale 2013 deals from stores like Walmart, Best Buy, Target and Staples.
- Walmart is offering the iPad Mini less gift card for $199
- Target is offering the iPad Air less gift card for $379
- Best Buy is offering iPad 2 for $299
- Staples is offering iPad 4 for $349
- Walmart is offering a $75 gift card for iPhone 5s or iPhone 5c
- Best Buy is offering $200 off the MacBook and MacBook Pro Retina
- Best Buy is offering $150 off the MacBook Air
Even with these discounted deals for Apple Inc., the company is confident that its revenue will not be affected.
In fact, during Apple Inc.'s announcement of its Fourth Quarter results, CEO Tim Cook said that they are excited about the upcoming holidays.
"We're excited to go into the holidays with our new iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s, iOS 7, the new iPad mini with Retina Display and the incredibly thin and light iPad Air, new MacBook Pros, the radical new Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks and the next generation iWork and iLife apps for OS X and iOS," said Mr Cook.
"We generated $9.9 billion in cash flow from operations and returned an additional $7.8 billion in cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases during the September quarter, bringing cumulative payments under our capital return program to $36 billion," said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO.
Apple is providing the following guidance for its fiscal 2014 first quarter:
§ Revenue between $55 billion and $58 billion
§ Gross margin between 36.5 percent and 37.5%
§ Operating expenses between $4.4 billion and $4.5 billion
§ Other income/(expense) of $200 million
§ Tax rate of 26.25%