Will Apple refund you if you bought a case from a separate company?

[Nckcard]

I bought a case from Incipio, and I was wondering if Apple would refund my money for that case. I saw in the press release that Jobs said "Free cases for everyone who bought or buys an iPhone 4 through September 30th. If you've bought one already, we'll refund you.", but I was not sure if that applied to cases not bought from Apple themselves.

Thanks!

 

[GameraFan]

I bought a case from Incipio, and I was wondering if Apple would refund my money for that case. I saw in the press release that Jobs said "Free cases for everyone who bought or buys an iPhone 4 through September 30th. If you've bought one already, we'll refund you.", but I was not sure if that applied to cases not bought from Apple themselves.

Thanks!

No per the Q&A.

 

[markel253]

Q: Will the refund include third party cases?
A: There's a very small number of third party cases out there. So no.
Q: Well it's interesting, there aren't any cases out there, and it's hard to get cases now. If the third party case buyers can produce a receipt, why not give them one?
Steve: It's really simple, if we tell people what our next product is, they stop buying our current products. Sometimes websites buy stolen property and they get out there... and case makers have a history of showing off their new cases for our new products. The case vendors haven't had a history of helping to keep our work under wraps.

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