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That's odd, my experience with out of warranty is that apple just does it, I had a jail broken iPad reached out of warranty.

Yeah I always thought Apple would just do an out-of-warranty swap regardless if it was dropped, spilled on or what ever. I even complained to them and tried to get them to do it but they resisted do to an out-of-warranty swap on both occasions.
 
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