TUAW's big Black Friday sale guide
Enjoy your turkey and fixins today, because tomorrow is the biggest shopping day of the year. Everything's on sale somewhere, and "everything" includes plenty of Apple accessories, apps and products. Here's a listing of all the sales we've collected and heard about this past week. There are bound to be more out there, too -- if you know of a good deal this week, feel free to add it in the comments below as well.
StealthArmor's full body kits for Apple's iOS devices are only US$15 each, priced down from $45.
Best Buy is offering a $100 or $150 gift card with most of its Mac purchases.
Target, Toys R Us and Best Buy are all offering bonus gift cards with the purchase of an 8GB iPod touch.
Other World Computing has a whole page of deals for the holiday, including $7.50 dock cables, $99 for 8GB RAM upgrade kits and 90% off NewerTech iOS cases and accessories.
This isn't Apple-related, but if the iPad is too pricey for you, you can pick up an Amazon Kindle 2 for only $89 on Friday.
A few more deals, including lots and lots and lots of App Store deals, after the break.
Developers have learned over the years to go deal crazy on their apps during Black Friday, so there are tons and tons and tons of apps on sale. 148 Apps has a nice roundup, and App Advice has another one.
Highlights include Sega's library, with Phantasy Star II and ChuChu Rocket, Harbor Master from Imangi, EA's TETRIS and Need for Speed Undercover and Namco's PAC-MAN Championship Edition all on sale for just a buck each.
Outside of games, Gifts HD is down to just a buck this weekend, and Readdle has dropped prices on all of their apps as well. Punflay's edutainment apps are also free or cheap this weekend, and Vito Technology's Star Walk, Solar Walk and Geo Walk apps are all on sale for 99 cents.
On the iPad, both Monkey Island games are on sale, and Fruit Ninja HD is also getting dropped from $4.99 to $2.99. Stay tuned all weekend to our Twitter account for more app sales as we see them -- there will be plenty.
Creaceed's Mac and iOS apps are all 30% off this weekend.
DEVONtechnologies is offering a 25% discount on all of its products.
Livescribe is offering its Pulse 2GB smartpen (recently compatible with the Mac) for just $99 at Best Buy and Amazon this weekend.
You can use the code "BF33DISPRO" to get 33% off of web design app Freeway Pro this weekend.
If you use 1Password, you probably saw the email that you've got a free license to the software to give away to someone this weekend, and Agile is also giving away some holiday-related e-books. New customers can also get 20% off of Agile's 1Password for all platforms, including Mac, Windows and iOS.
Fry's has a 17" MacBook Pro for $2299 minus a $180 discount.
Gelaskins is offering 20% off everything on the site.
MacMall has some nice deals, including an Apple TV for $97.99, big discounts on accessories and free extras with new Mac and iPod purchases.
Free $10 iTunes gift card and $10 goes to charity when you buy BearExtender.
You can upgrade to Parallels Desktop 6 for just $39.99.
Kensington has a whole bunch of deals on iOS accessories from 30-70% off.
The code "THANKYOU10" gets you a 10% checkout discount at Griffin.
Whew! That's a lot of money, both spent and saved. And this is only what we've heard about this weekend; there are probably plenty of other deals roaming around out there. Be sure to tune in to our Twitter feed for more discounts and sales as they pop up.