Apple Is Forced By EU To Give 2 Years Warranty On All Its Products 270
dsmalle writes "Apple has adapted its warranty to cover 2 years, under pressure of the European Union and after European consumer organizations sued Apple. From the article: 'The warranty conditions have been changed and these changes can be found on the website of Apple. Products that are purchased on the website of the manufacturer or in stores are now under warranty for two years, as it is required by the EU warranty guidelines. However, the warranty for Apple products that have been purchased elsewhere will not change and they will only be given a limited one-year warranty.'"
Apple still weaselling out of it (Score:5, Interesting)
This hasn't changed anything. What's the point of a warranty that lasts two years which covers defects that were present on delivery?
(See http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/)
Apple should be forced to stop weaselling and just give us what the law requires.
-- An Apple Fanboi
Re:As An American... (Score:2, Interesting)
So I guess this raises the question of why Europeans bought Apple products despite those products breaking the law? Did they have faith in that their government would enforce the law, or did they simply not care that the law was being broken?
IT's zero cost to apple. (Score:2, Interesting)
Honestly, if apple was to say, "Oh ok, in fact world wide 2 year warranty" they would have created a gigantic PR buzz that would have hurt everyone else at ZERO cost to them.
Honestly, the failure rate difference between 1 year and 2 years cant be big enough to cost them anything. It's almost a Zero cost to them with gigantic gains in PR if they embraced it.
Plus it would give all their competitors gigantic headaches.
Re:As An American... (Score:5, Interesting)
If Congress tried to pass something like this, we would never hear the end of "socialist liberal government taking over the free market." Sigh.
Absolutely. Because the States is effectively rules by the corporations. Somehow certain consumers would complain about a law that only benefits them. How brainwashed are they?
Re:As An American... (Score:4, Interesting)
The Apple i-device users are famous for buying another every year, so who benefits by a two year guarantee for a one year product, its like demanding a 10 year guarantee for a gallon of milk from the grocery store...
Some people change cars every four years. That means we don't need to make cars that last any longer.
See how half-assed that logic is?
Even if you do buy a new iDevice every year, why should the old one stop working?
Re:As An American... (Score:5, Interesting)
And if this was the USA, there would be a class-action lawsuit
If this was the USA, the ToS likely prohibits the customer from bringing a class-action lawsuit in the first place. [wikipedia.org]
I don't know for sure, though, as I don't have the time to read 56 pages worth of legalese [time.com].