Yep and they remind us every time a new product is launched/priced. Then a few months later they tell us how great everything is because it’s “free”. A never ending cycle.
I agree. I've owned tons of Apple stuff and have never bought any kind of extended warranty from Apple. Never had anything break either. All that saved money in my pocket; it's a good feeling.
Please tell that to the posters here that always whine about 21% taxes and Apple’s higher prices in countries that have these rights. Apple bakes those longer warranties into the price of their products. There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
Interesting, now that you mention the 12.9” iPad Pro and screen replacement, because as far as I know, the screen is laminated and it is impossible to repair only the screen. AFAI, the only way to go is the replacement of the entire device.
And yet that’s when I stopped buying AppleCare because it hadn’t been worth it.
If the products are as premium and well built and designed as Apple always claim, then nothing will go wrong, so no additional risk. Charging 20% of the purchase price for AC+, e.g. working on the premise that 1 in 5 products [for those who spent on AC+, more like 1 in 3] is going to fail, really either tells you they have no confidence or alternately are fleecing to a high order. Put it this way, BMW charge less for an additional 2 years of warranty [after providing 3 years] than a replacement screen for an iPad Pro!
Really? I've had several MacBook Pros, a couple iMacs, and a Mac mini. Of all, the only one that is currently broken had a couch set on it and dropped twice. Neither of those incidents broke it. About 7 years out of warranty the logic board went out (perhaps as a result of years of beatings), but otherwise all devices have been rock solid, even performant enough to relegate to other operations after I upgraded. What types of Macs tend to break out of warranty and what is it going bad on them? It could be that I wait till new products have been on the market a while before upgrading, and miss the first-off-the-line versions. I've been eyeing the new Mac mini with M1, but may wait a while longer if they tend to break.
My SE/30 might be favorite Mac ever and it still runs fine. AppleCare was not a bad idea for macbooks when they had moving parts, but it’s not worth it now that everything is solid state. In the past 10 years I have had to replace a motherboard and an iPhone both for water damage, and even with those big repairs I’m far better off having skipped AppleCare on everything.
Interestingly, by the time most people's 2021 12.9 IPP ships, we will know what the new software user experience will be (will be just a few days before or after WWDC when people receive them).
I have no idea why you wrote any of that. It had zero to do with what I said. Zero.
I've found AppleCare+ to be helpful with iPhones. Drops, even with cases, have resulted in cracked cameras (if you break one on the back, they have to replace the whole phone if it was the XS Max model), screens, etc.
I don't think he said what you think he said.
Sure, we will know it but we most likely won't be able to use it until iOS 15 goes public (maybe even wait for a .1 update or two for good measure and for all features to go live). That's in several months from now. I'm not saying that to dissuade anyone (and who cares about what I say anyway), but I don't buy devices with the promise of what they could do in the future. Plus, I needed that larger iPP in a shorter notice than Apple's shipping estimate, and 12% off on Amazon was pretty compelling.
Spoken like a person without many small children running amok in the house....
Do they give a new one or a refurbished one? In the past, I was given a refurbished replacement from other companies. Luckily never have needed to get one from Apple yet.
