🚀 go-pugleaf

Congratulations to Apple for finally responding to its customers needs
(more like demands).  I think 3 months of retroactive warranty is a
generous offer.  I got screwed by 15 days on THINK C v3.0 (no
retroactivity, and THINK had a history of offering it), and remember
the irritation, but that's life.

Apple *could* have been more discrete: Offer to sell 50%-discounted
pro-rated warranty coverage up to 1 year, for everyone who purchased a
machine within the last 12 months, so that every purchaser in the last
12 months could extend their warranty to the full 12 months, at a
discount.  This is a much more friendly "soft" cutoff.  It probably
wouldn't cost Apple that much.

Let's hope that some day, Apple takes quality far enough to offer a
2-year or 3-year warranty.  Automobiles already carry longer
warrantees, and yet American companies still need to demonstrate they
are the highest-quality producers to survive in today's world market.


Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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