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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Worthless Warranty
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Date: 21 Mar 90 17:28:28 GMT
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mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
> The fact that car buyers don't complain that the car companies are screwing
> them over as loudly as we do when the computer companies screw us over is
> not a valid excuse. [...] I am not [...] satisfied when Apple tells me
> that machines bought 8 days after my machine [...] have a 1-year warranty,
> and mine doesn't!

	Who's being screwed?  Presumably when you bought your machine, you
knew it had a 90-day warranty and satisfied yourself that it was worth the
price you were paying for it.  If you didn't think it was worth the price,
factoring in all the intangables like length of the warranty period, you
wouldn't have bought it, right?  Has any of that changed?  Your machine
wasn't worth any less the day after Apple announced the longer warranty for
new machines than it was the day before, was it?  I guess you have a right
to feel disapointed that you didn't get a longer warranty after-the-fact,
but to feel that you're being screwed?  Get real.
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