Comments on: AppleCare Available to Florida Residents After All

By: peter

peter — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:26:31 +0000

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

Lazlo — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:43:43 +0000

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

Mike Kirby — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:04:26 +0000

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

Matt C — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:36:54 +0000

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

gkar — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 01:57:41 +0000

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

Josh Pigford — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:10:38 +0000

Pete, thank you for clearing your point up.

By: Dan Bruno

Dan Bruno — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:03:18 +0000

This comment section sure took a turn for the bizarre.

By: Slippery Pete

Slippery Pete — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 13:20:52 +0000

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

Slippery Pete — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 13:15:13 +0000

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

Josh Pigford — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:19:01 +0000

Haha…Pete, think what you would like…but you’ve yet to provide any grounds/explanations/reasons for ANY of your thoughts/points.

By: Slippery Pete

Slippery Pete — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:11:42 +0000

Congratulations, Josh, you are the densest person I’ve interacted with all week.

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:55:49 +0000

Haha, Pete, your original post sure didn’t covey any sort of “point.” And how would starting a fund drive to raise $500 for Apple’s pettiness do any good to draw attention to the issue? Wouldn’t that be us, the Apple users, still paying the $500? Maybe I’m missing something here but it seems pretty cut and dry. Apple should quit being little toddlers over this issue and just fork over the $500. They’d make that back in a matter of hours with people buying the AppleCare package. There is NO reason Apple users should have to fork over a penny for apple in this case…especially when they still have to buy an AppleCare package.

By: Slippery Pete

Slippery Pete — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:36:10 +0000

Ok, you guys obviously don’t understand what I’m getting at here. This is The Apple Blog, correct? And The Apple Blog (as well as its readers) are surprised and somewhat pissed at Apple’s juvenile refusal to pony up $500 to provide warranty coverage to the entire point of Florida.

My point was that starting a fund drive publicly, on this blog, would be a great way to draw attention to this silly matter and get attention for this Blog.

By: Chris Lawson

Chris Lawson — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:32:29 +0000

Pete, aside from it being, as Josh said, the principle of the thing, I HIGHLY doubt that an individual can apply for “warranty status” on behalf of a company.

No, Apple must do this themselves.

Carl: I’ve heard of other people doing as you did with success. However, when they tried to make a claim under the AppleCare warranty, it was rejected. Caveat emptor is the operative phrase here. Until Apple resolves the issue with the state of Florida, I wouldn’t count on being able to actually use the AppleCare you paid good money for.

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:18:33 +0000

Why should the customer have to pay this measly fee when a company as big as Apple throws $500 around like pocket change. It’s the principle of the thing.

By: Slippery Pete

Slippery Pete — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:39:22 +0000

Dude, just pay the $500 yourself. Seriously. Or start a collection. Email me and I’ll donate $50. Find eight more people (plus yourself) and…problem solved.