Just bought my Apple Watch Series 3 few days ago but yet to get the Apple Care+. I usually get Apple Care+ for all my Apple products including iPhone and iMac but not sure if I should get one for the watch. Any advice will be appreciated.
You’ve never smashed a watch face by accidentally swinging your arm into a door jam or chair as you’ve walked by? I know I have and that was with quartz. Bought AppleCare+ with my aluminum AW3.It's tied to your wrist. You can't drop it and smash it like you can a phone. So personally I don't bother.
Nope.You’ve never smashed a watch face by accidentally swinging your arm into a door jam or chair as you’ve walked by?
I usually get Apple Care+ for all my Apple products including iPhone and iMac but not sure if I should get one for the watch. Any advice will be appreciated.
For $49, it’s worth it to me.
It is interesting - for the same price as a second Watch Band, which would I choose?
[For new Watch buyers as I already have plenty of those.]
Just bought my Apple Watch Series 3 few days ago but yet to get the Apple Care+. I usually get Apple Care+ for all my Apple products including iPhone and iMac but not sure if I should get one for the watch. Any advice will be appreciated.
Unfortunately, I have not found AppleCare plus to increase re-sale value on the watch in any significant manner as Apple Watch resale value is already horrid.
The biggest plus of AppleCare Plus on the watch is Advanced Exchange. When you have a problem with the watch that the store can't fix (which is just about any hardware problem) the watch is sent to Apple for repair. That means no watch for almost a week. If your problem is intermittent, the tech could send it back without doing any repair at all.
With AppleCare Plus, you call AppleCare and give them a CC number. They place a hold on that card and send you another watch and then you send yours back. This way, you are never without the watch and you never have to worry about the tech saying 'no problem found.'
Which country?
For me it’s too expensive if you’ve got an aluminium watch. (It’s the same price for aluminium or stainless steel).
If the cost was more in proportion to the cost of the model you picked I’d consider it. I’m in the UK and it’s £59 here and £49 if you claim.
It's tied to your wrist. You can't drop it and smash it like you can a phone. So personally I don't bother.
If the cost was more in proportion to the cost of the model you picked I’d consider it. I’m in the UK and it’s £59 here and £49 if you claim.
Unfortunately, I have not found AppleCare plus to increase re-sale value on the watch in any significant manner as Apple Watch resale value is already horrid.
The biggest plus of AppleCare Plus on the watch is Advanced Exchange. When you have a problem with the watch that the store can't fix (which is just about any hardware problem) the watch is sent to Apple for repair. That means no watch for almost a week. If your problem is intermittent, the tech could send it back without doing any repair at all.
With AppleCare Plus, you call AppleCare and give them a CC number. They place a hold on that card and send you another watch and then you send yours back. This way, you are never without the watch and you never have to worry about the tech saying 'no problem found.'
It's tied to your wrist. You can't drop it and smash it like you can a phone. So personally I don't bother.
"Wrong"... Typical obnoxious MacRumors poster writing style. "I disagree" does not equal "wrong".Wrong - it's on your wrist, where it's easy to bang into hard surfaces. And if you drop it while taking it off to charge, the damage to the display could be considerable.
My phone is in my pocket most of the time. My watch is on a constantly moving thing. I sometimes smack my arm into chairs or the counter (wrist height). It happens to people more than you realize. People don’t normally break the faces because even cheap watches use quartz but they still sustain abuse. I don’t trust the IonX glass to not crack. If mine was sapphire I probably wouldn’t have bought AC+ but I wasn’t willing to pay for the upgrade in material.... people don't break their Watches by banging them into hard surfaces like you and so many others seem to believe. If Watches broke that easily, people wouldn't wear them.
You handle your iPhone in your hands dozens of times a day suspended several feet above hard surfaces. Meanwhile the Watch is tied to your wrist and gets handled maybe twice a day when you put it on and take it off. Fundamental difference.
Just bought my Apple Watch Series 3 few days ago but yet to get the Apple Care+. I usually get Apple Care+ for all my Apple products including iPhone and iMac but not sure if I should get one for the watch. Any advice will be appreciated.
"Wrong"... Typical obnoxious MacRumors poster writing style. "I disagree" does not equal "wrong".
But anyway, people don't break their Watches by banging them into hard surfaces like you and so many others seem to believe. If Watches broke that easily, people wouldn't wear them.
You handle your iPhone in your hands dozens of times a day suspended several feet above hard surfaces. Meanwhile the Watch is tied to your wrist and gets handled maybe twice a day when you put it on and take it off. Fundamental difference.