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Apple Launches iPhone 8 Logic Board Repair Program
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Thankfully not. Apple designs great devices and has high manufacturing quality standards. Those combined results in good reliability and few problems like this.
You can thank your government(s) for Apple’s uncharacteristic generosity. In the U.S., Apple—one of the most cash rich companies in the world—decides what risks are reasonable for customers and itself. And they ain’t that confident about their products. Indeed, the majority of brands here have stingy warranties despite boasting of their quality.
A Sales of Goods law is desperately needed in the U.S., especially as tech devices push the limits. Their engineering complexity doesn’t protect against potential failures, it invites more potential flaws. Ask anyone who has owned a luxury German car.
It’s always “a very small percentage”... I think this is a subjective characterization as opposed to a mathematical result.
Well if you sell a faulty device to customers, you're pretty much obliged to do that
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. Very nice phone except I have this pink line running down the screen. If I press the screen, the line will go away. Apparently this is a known issue and it will be repaired if my phone was under warranty.
Well when it happened my phone was no longer in warranty, what did Samsung offer? "We can't help you, but you can buy the S8!"
Good luck telling Samsung that they are obliged to fix it.
By repair I do sure hope that means giving the user a completely new phone, and the old one gets stripped down for recycling by Apple's innovative mistake erasing robot.
Apple's premium prices should not include having to mess around with repairing flawed manufacturing, design or bad parts since you are paying for at least two complete phones worth of parts and get only one in the box.
Apple's premium prices should not include having to mess around with repairing flawed manufacturing, design or bad parts since you are paying for at least two complete phones worth of parts and get only one in the box.
My wife's phone restarts if she rapidly takes a lot of pictures. I'm also guessing her phone won't be on the program, either!
No, that's not it, it's up volume, down volume, and then hold side button. Volume buttons by themselves shouldn't do it.
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So my wife checked her phone, and her serial number isn't in the program, either. How quickly time flies, we ordered our 8's on launch day, it's getting close to the one year, we have to bring that phone in this weekend anyway then while still on warranty.
They really mean phone swap. Apple is not going to swap logic boards in store. The geniuses can barely can handle replacing the battery lol.
That sucks man. I was planning to buy an iphone 8 this year to replace my old 6s (same size)...better not
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a kidney?
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puff, really? for that price is very dissappointing.
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I don't know about your phone but my 6s which i've had too since launch day, shows battery health 100% too lol.
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In some countries even if you have 1 Apple Store you have to send the phone to the States and they'll will send you a refurbished phone as a replacement...
The last time I visited Apple they just tell me to buy a new iPhone because they don’t fix logic board. That’s literally about a month ago. That’s when they just turned into a trillion dollar company. I guess they need to make more money that time.