AppleCare+ for Apple TV Now Available for the First Time

[ProfessionalFan]

How!?!? They are literally a piece of aluminum.

The current remote has glass

 

[norbinhouston]

How!?!? They are literally a piece of aluminum.

They are glass my friend.

 

[A_Flying_Panda]

Hold my Apple TV. Oops. Dont worry, we have accidental protection whenever you drop you Apple TV and crack its screen.
oh it does not even have a screen? Dont worry we got you covered anyway.

 

[innovationwho]

They put availability for apple care on it because it’s probably going to easily break. Yeah, don’t buy it.

How is it easily going to break?

 

[LogicalApex]

What’s the difference between AppleCare and AppleCare+? I just saw earlier today that I actually purchased AppleCare for our last AppleTV (lord knows why).

+ includes accidental damage.

Not worth it unless your kids or dog destroys the remote regularly. But even then eBay would probably come out ahead.

 

[im_to_hyper]

Why on earth would you buy apple care at all for a device like this? Its not like it is going to be mobile and prone to breakage and it probably will become functionally obsolete in three years anyway.

Cats are helluva cat sometimes. You really never know if you have pets or younger kids what might happen.

Or drunk friends. You pick.

 

[WaltCD]

I would buy the new Apple TV on sale, such as Best Buy or Amazon. Use the money saved to buy Apple Care+. About the same price, and you have no worries for three years.
$29 is a piddly price to pay. No worries.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Like it or not, this is good business for Apple.

 

[sqenixs]

Why on earth would you buy apple care at all for a device like this? Its not like it is going to be mobile and prone to breakage and it probably will become functionally obsolete in three years anyway.

Some people like to install apple TV into their car.

 

[AussieStu]

Does this cover include losing a remote?
Need to be like DJI as you get 2 replacements

 

[lsutigerfan1976]

Don’t buy it.

I would say the same. Except it seems like I hav always needed it whenever an update bricks my device. Has happened quite a few times. That my Apple TV tries to update. And it bricks. And Apple then says there is nothing that can be done. Cause of when it was purchased. And I didn’t have AppleCare.

 

[laurieballard]

Why? For a device that stays at home?

We have a 1 year old child who chomps on the Apple TV remote and launches it across the room several times a day, still going strong!

I don't buy apple care for anything, the cost outweighs the benefit for me. Out of multiple Macbooks, iPhones, iPad etc, I have dropped my phone once and it made the smallest dent in the chassis. What I have saved on not buying Applecare over the years, I could probably buy the latest iMac and still have change for the accessories.

 

[4487549]

Why on earth would you buy apple care at all for a device like this? Its not like it is going to be mobile and prone to breakage and it probably will become functionally obsolete in three years anyway.

There's one born every minute...

 

[cmaier]

I would say the same. Except it seems like I hav always needed it whenever an update bricks my device. Has happened quite a few times. That my Apple TV tries to update. And it bricks. And Apple then says there is nothing that can be done. Cause of when it was purchased. And I didn’t have AppleCare.

I have a stack of Apple TVs. None of them have ever bricked. Seems you have bad luck or i have good luck.

 

[BenGieCruz]

I have a stack of Apple TVs. None of them have ever bricked. Seems you have bad luck or i have good luck.

Are any of them 4K?

 

[cmaier]

Are any of them 4K?

Yep, 3 of them. The other 7 are HD or earlier, and are retired to the “Closet of outdated or unused apple hardware” that includes a box of iphones, a stack of MacBooks, a smattering of ipads, a handful of iPods, and a bin of airports.

 

[BenGieCruz]

Yep, 3 of them. The other 7 are HD or earlier, and are retired to the “Closet of outdated or unused apple hardware” that includes a box of iphones, a stack of MacBooks, a smattering of ipads, a handful of iPods, and a bin of airports.

Lucky you man!