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Article #20145Re: Apple Warranties (was: Apple Hates You)
From: Robert Dorsett
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1987 02:34
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1987 02:34
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In article <3959@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> psych@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology) writes:
>In Canada the Apple warranty is 90 days but we also get 9 months of AppleCare
>after that period for free. The effective warranty is therefore 1 year. I
>don't mind paying a little more for the extra service.
I do. I think AppleCare's a rip-off. It's expensive, and over a period of
time will inevitably cost more than any conceivable hardware failure, short
of dropping the machine off the roof of a building. If a computer's going
to break, it'll probably break within the first 90 days. I try to run the
suckers into the ground during that period, keeping them on most of the time,
etc...:-) I'd be much more inclined to keep the money I'd otherwise pay for
Applecare in the bank.
Anyone care to estimate how much money Apple makes from Applecare?
--
Robert Dorsett {allegra,seismo}!sally!ut-ngp!walt!mentat
University of Texas at Austin {allegra, seismo}!sally!ut-ngp!auscso!mentat
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!ut-ngp!auscso!mentat From: mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple Warranties (was: Apple Hates You) Message-ID: <521@auscso.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 22:34:45 EDT Article-I.D.: auscso.521 Posted: Fri Oct 16 22:34:45 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Oct-87 08:27:40 EDT References: <1629@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <467@auscso.UUCP> <790@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU> <3959@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett) Distribution: na Organization: Austin UNIX Users' Group, Austin, TX Lines: 25 Keywords: warranty