The Canadian company Research in Motion, the developer of the famous BlackBerry phones, is in an extremely delicate financial situation due to the not-so-happy decisions taken in the past regarding the long-term development strategy. Because RIM is not doing well, the rest of the big companies are trying to take advantage of the situation and Apple is one of them. For RIM Apple employees offers discounts between 2% and 8% for the purchase of almost any product from their own offer and the generosity of those from Apple is the most easily observed in the case of the price for Macs.
If for iPad tablets Apple offers discounts of only $10-15, for Macs the discounts can even reach the value of $250 in the case of the most powerful Mac Pro. In the case of MacBook Air/Pro, the discounts are between $50-$150, so not negligible, but only RIM employees can benefit from them. iPhone terminals and Apple TV do not benefit from a discount, but the rest of Apple products can be purchased without problems and the situation is interesting because RIM sells a tablet called Playbook and Apple offers RIM employees discounts for the iPad.
The idea of those from Apple is good, especially because there are a lot of Mac owners in the big companies, but I don't know how many will walk around the RIM headquarters with iPad tablets.
