OP isn’t trying to claim damages from data loss. he’s claiming damages from the loss of HIS ENTIRE MACHINE. no hardware to be found. gonzo. lost. stolen. whatever. he now owns zero laptops, whereas before he visited the apple store he owned one.
If you look at who my message was in relation to you will notice it is not aimed at the OP but someone else who posted misinformation of which my post corrected.
Yikes! I don't know how it is in Apple Germany, but in Apple US, they always caution you that any personal information you have on the hard drive can be erased or lost so you need to back up.
OP has TimeMachine backups already.
I see. Thank you for pointing that out.
Which is why at the very very least, the drive should be encrypted.
I’m sorry about your car, but you didn’t drop it off at the dealer for repairs, have the dealer ship it across the country and have the shippers accidentally dump the car in a lake, while potentially stealing your briefcase of important papers in it. That would be an apt analogy. Yours? I don’t understand why insurance should mimic what apple’s responsibility is here. Insurance on cars in the US sucks, but it’s how we run things. It’s not comparable to what happened to the OP.
Read the entire thread. The OP asked the genius bar if he/she should wipe the data. The genius bar advised the OP that this was not necessary because they where not going to work on the SSD. Mind you, the OP came in for a simple battery replacement.
Yeah, I saw that bit of information from the OP too.
Enough guys.
I really hope he gets the 14" free of charge later on today.
@GoztepeEge Good luck my friend! ?
When you get it, POST PICTURES TO MAKE THEM MORE JEALOUS.
I think if I read this giant thread correctly he was hoping it was not lost.
That is not the point. Any hint of something going wrong, first call of action is to log into apple account and activate 'Find my...' to prevent unauthorised access to the macbook. If during the investigation the macbook is found the OP can easily return to apple account and remove 'Find my..' from the device list.
in essence it *might* take something away from themIt's pretty sad the animosity you can feel coming from people who are not at all affected by this. It's as if OP getting a replacement laptop takes something away from them. I just can't wait for OP to post pics of their beautiful new laptop.
Yes, in a perfect world. Unfortunately we don't live there. In hindsight we all know what is best. You can be formal or judgemental about it all you want but people make mistakes. That makes them human.
