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In article <1800@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>In article <39307@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>
>>CUPERTINO, California--March 8, 1990--Apple Computer, Inc. today
>>announced that all Apple hardware products sold in the United States
>>after January 1, 1990 will be covered by a one-year limited warranty.
>
>  Well.... Isn't that special?  I took delivery of my Mac IIx and AppleColor
>RGB monitor on December 21, 1989.  Funny thing.  I took delivery of my LaCie
>105Mb hard disk around December 10, and it's covered until December 10, 1994.
>Why couldn't Apple have done something reasonable like saying "If you
>purchased it in the last year, it's under warranty until a year after you
>bought it."???????

I agree (I purchased my Mac on December 15, 1989).  What you suggest
would indeed have been "the right thing" for Apple to do.  While I
applaud Apple's decision to go to a one year warranty, it's too bad
that they have decided to screw over the customers who purchased Macs
during the latter 9 months or so of 1989.  Think about it: how much
more over the long run could it really have cost them to cover these
machines?  The policy of retroactive application to an arbitrary date
such as Jan 1, 1990 is nonsensical.

Sigh.  It's really amazing that even when Apple tries to do the right
thing, they manage to allow greed to screw it up in some significant
way.

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