Amusing that they state: "companies should offer a free two-year warranty."
Do most Europeans actually believe its free of charge without even a modicum
of impact on the pricing of a product? Its incredible that the vary people
who applaud this sort of thing whine about the disparity in prices for
identical products in their countries. Of course since the US President has
been intentionally trashing this nations currency for over three years,
y'all may have a more favorable exchange rate, but the reality is that all
costs have a direct affect on a company's profit margin which must be offset
by increasing revenue. The only method at a company's disposal to augment
revenue is to price their goods and services accordingly.
To be fair, the pro-EU faction of Europeans don't have a monopoly on
believing politician's fairy tales of a free lunch. Its always amusing to
watch supporters of our current President demand that these evil energy
producers be taxed for various offenses having to do with being an evil
corporation in general and the global warming hoax in particular.
Ironically, those vary people complain when their electric bills skyrocket
and they can't afford to fill their gas tanks, or purchase food (which
generally requires transportation).
To keep this topical, its probably fair to conclude that citizens of the
affected EU nations shouldn't be surprised to discover that this will hit
them directly in the pocket book, which would be identical to the affect of
raising taxes on Apple. Corporations do not pay taxes you see -- they
simply collect them from their customers.
Best regards.
Geoff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicolai Svendsen" <chojiro1...@gmail.com>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: EU law forces Apple two-year warranty | Macworld
Hi,
Actually, this is perfectly justifiable. Before just now, you only got one
year of warranty if you included AppleCare, which truthfully isn't any
better than what the insurance any other company can provide. In a lot of
countries, you have an insurance which covers all damages to electronic
equipment, like computers, televisions, microwaves and so-forth regardless
of the warranty provided by the manufacturer. And obviously, Apple
misleads customers by suggesting that we pay for AppleCare for the second
and third year when the two-year law in Europe didn't cover it at the
time, which actually should have been the case as the article says.
So, Apple deserves taking the heat for this one, though I'm kind of
surprised their lawyers haven't acted on this to prevent the misleading
claims. Since I'm into law, at least as a hobby, I've been rather upset
when I've shown up with damaged equipment to find I wasn't covered, but my
insurance company was perfectly able to replace the item if it was damaged
beyond repair, at least if you include the coverage when signing
insurance. Of course, I haven't had damaged items, but I like to test
Apple since they've been rather troublesome, not just in this area but
also when it comes to advertising.
At any rate, I'm pretty happy to see Apple refining AppleCare and warranty
now.
Regards,
Nicolai
On Apr 11, 2012, at 5:26 AM, Sarah Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not so sure what to think of this. but here's the article. the
reader is available in this one.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1166194/eu_law_forces_apple_twoyear_warranty.html#lsrc.rss_products_ipod
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