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In article <21549@netnews.upenn.edu> hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Josh Hodas) writes:
>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."???????
::[...]
:
:Well, while I am stuck in much the same position (my IIci arrived in mid
:November) and I wish that I could get the extension, I do understand why 
:they went this route.  Figure that only people who bought their machines 
:in the first week of January  have had any time out of warranty as yet. 


I'm not sure I follow.  My IIx is STILL under warranty, for a few more weeks.
At the very least, Apple could say, "If it's still under warranty, it's
extended to a full year" but I think my solution is more ethical.

--Mike