Although not covered in yesterday’s event, Apple has, as rumored, rolled out their new small business support program, Joint Venture. Here’s how Apple describes Joint Venture:
Joint Venture is a program designed to help you use Mac, iPhone, and iPad to improve the way your business runs. We’ll set up your new Apple products, train your employees to get the most out of them, and make sure everything stays working with dedicated support.
Not only will Apple help you setup new systems for your business with software installation and data transfer, they’ll also train your employees on an on-going basis, allowing companies to schedule up to three two-hour training sessions per year for their employees.
Joint Venture will also support your business in times of crisis, offering “unprecedented” access to the Genius Bar as well as telephone consultations, priority access for in-store appointments and even loaner notebooks in the form of MacBook Pros and MacBook Air for while your office machines are in for repair.
A pretty compelling offer, especially for the price: coverage begins at $499 per year for up to five system, with each additional system coverable for $99.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
4 responses to “Joint Venture for Small Businesses Has Officially Launched”
Nice to see the basically just screwed the Apple Consultants Network after many of us just paid our renewal fee.
Not really since they still won’t help design systems or go to the offices.