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	More Companies Cashing in on Your Smoke

bookchick49

11-29-2009 8:37 AM

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applecare, smoke, smoking

bookchick49 says:

Interesting take on your computer's warranty. You might want to snuf it out.

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			posted by <a href="http://www.osnews.com/editor/11">Thom Holwerda</a>			on Fri 27th Nov 2009 20:45 UTC			</div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.osnews.com/story/22545/Should_Smoking_Void_Warranties_">Late last week news got out that Apple is refusing to repair machines still under AppleCare from customers who smoke, <a href="http://consumerist.com/2009/11/smoking-near-apple-computers-creates-biohazard-voids-warranty.html">citing health risks from second-hand smoke</a>. Wait, what?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.osnews.com/story/22545/Should_Smoking_Void_Warranties_">smoking near your device more or less equates to throwing it in the aquarium, or driving your car over it. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.osnews.com/story/22545/Should_Smoking_Void_Warranties_">The problem with the smoking claim is that the smoking itself did not break the devices in question.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.osnews.com/story/22545/Should_Smoking_Void_Warranties_">There is no mention whatsoever about smoking in the AppleCare terms, so how can Apple - or any other company for that matter - deny repairs?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.osnews.com/story/22545/Should_Smoking_Void_Warranties_">health regulations are the manufacturer's problem, not the consumer's.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.osnews.com/story/22545/Should_Smoking_Void_Warranties_"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-8">
The only way in which a company could deny repairs for smokers is if the smoke actually is the cause of the malfunction, and that this is classified as an external influence not covered by warranty/AppleCare, but it is quite clear in these cases that's not what happened. 
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