Comments on: AppleCare Available to Florida Residents After All http://gigaom.com/apple/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:46:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: peter http://gigaom.com/apple/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305658 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:26:31 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/05/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305658 Apple has a good place in my heart. Both the fruit and the Pcs. Im getting reminded of this quote, an apple a day keeps the doctor away and if it is a beautiful doctor, keep the apple away.LOL

]]> By: Lazlo http://gigaom.com/apple/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305657 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:43:43 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/05/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305657 Unless the rules have changed, buying the Applecare warranty online does nothing except waste money. Bought the warranty and then when it was necessary to actually use it, was told by Apple that it was invalid in Florida (the online vendor was able to provide a refund, but that did not fix my Mac!). That was two years ago, so hopefully, things have changed.

]]> By: Mike Kirby http://gigaom.com/apple/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305656 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:04:26 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/05/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305656 Pete and Josh:

That was the lamest flame war I’ve ever seen. What’s with all the slashes (“grounds/explanations/reasons/thoughts/points”)? And three back-and forths, then just “thank you for clearing your point up”? God. Some people have no idea how to argue. Honestly, my preschooler has more interesting flame wars with his playmates over their building blocks than you guys had here. Sheesh. Really.

Mike

]]> By: Matt C http://gigaom.com/apple/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305655 Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:36:54 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/05/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305655 Thanks for the explanation on this – I work in a middle school in Florida and our librarian was attempting to purchase a new Apple for the media center when this conundrum arose – we are required to purchase extended warranties for all machines, and the Apple rep said she could sell it to us, but if we attempted to use it, we would be declined, unless we could provide an out of state address when calling for support.

]]> By: gkar http://gigaom.com/apple/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305645 Sat, 09 Apr 2005 01:57:41 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/05/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305645 I work for a non-profit organization that gets a goodly amount of press. For a number of years when we were smaller, one of my responsibilities was that of official spokesperson. In other words, when the press called, I was the poor sucker who talked to them.

My experience is that the typical reporter is about as bright as a dead Christmas tree light. Let the reporter tape the conversation and provide him with a press release with the pertinent facts and he’ll not only get it all wrong, he’ll misspell your name too (thank god).

And unfortunately, I came to learn that when a relatively bright reporter showed up the situation was generally worse. This guy would either have his own agenda and was only interested in confirming it, or he was too damn lazy to take good notes or record the conversation. This meant he got the story mostly right but screwed up something essential.

In other words, I am quite confident that Apple has to do a great deal more than file a short form and write a $500 check. After all, Steve is no idiot and we all know he’s always looking for ways to make another buck.

]]> By: Josh Pigford http://gigaom.com/apple/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305649 Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:10:38 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/05/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305649 Pete, thank you for clearing your point up.

]]> By: Dan Bruno http://gigaom.com/apple/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305648 Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:03:18 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/05/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305648 This comment section sure took a turn for the bizarre.

]]> By: Slippery Pete http://gigaom.com/apple/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305647 Fri, 08 Apr 2005 13:20:52 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/05/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305647 I’ll try, one last time (God knows why I’m wasting my time) to explaing my so-called sneer-quoted grounds/explanations/reasons/thoughts/points. I was suggesting, albeit far too subtly for certain people, that TAB hold a mock fund-raising of $500 to illustrate how ridiculously cheap Apple is being here. Score a little PR and maybe get Apple’s attention. That was it. That’s the alpha and the omega of my entire ground/explanation/reason/thought/point.

There is, really, so very very little to it that I’m starting to wonder if your amusingly Dickensian names (both of them) aren’t clues that this absurd pigheadedness isn’t just a bit of joshing at my expense.

Do you understand now, or is further clarification/explanation/dissertation/self-flaggelation required to beat my little ground/explanation/reason/thought/point even further into the dust?

]]> By: Slippery Pete http://gigaom.com/apple/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305646 Fri, 08 Apr 2005 13:15:13 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/05/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305646 Take a pill, dude. Jesus Christ. You wanna hold Senate hearings on my so-called sneer-quoted “points”? You wanna dance? Think you can take me? My dad can beat up your dad.

Grow up and have your blood pressure check out.

]]> By: Josh Pigford http://gigaom.com/apple/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305643 Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:19:01 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/04/05/applecare-available-to-florida-residents-after-all/#comment-305643 Haha…Pete, think what you would like…but you’ve yet to provide any grounds/explanations/reasons for ANY of your thoughts/points.

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