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From: mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett)
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Subject: Re: Apple Warranties (was: Apple Hates You)
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Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 22:34:45 EDT
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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?








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