Be not deceived. An earlier class action lawsuit was dismissed, not the one that will be decided early April whether it moves forward or not.
As usual, manipulation and control is trying to create an illusion otherwise. Why do you think after all this time Apple suddenly decides to issue a repair program? Out of the "goodness" of it's heart? Yeah, right!
"Products affected
15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro models manufactured in 2011
15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina models manufactured from Mid 2012 to Early 2013"
"The program covers affected MacBook Pro models until February 27, 2016 or three years from its original date of sale, whichever provides longer coverage for you."
In other words, Apple is offering to replace logic boards for machines no more than 3 years after production for those manufactured in Early 2013, or for a bit longer for those produced earlier, and nothing else, as the standard 1 year warranty that covers other items remains in effect. You can bet this is being argued with legal sophistry as being "fair" and "reasonable" ENOUGH and that Apple should not be forced to do anything more. In other words, this is just more snookering in self interest instead of real customer service. Of course, the "program" makes no mention of what happens if those logic boards too fail, like so many others reported in this thread have. Such repairs typically come with only 90 day warranty. Part of the legal sophistry argument no doubt is that the minimum 3 year post production repair is sufficient - in other words, even if product fails outside of warranty, the minimum of 3 year 3 month lifespan on such product is "reasonable". The "program" of course doesn't address any of the consequences of such product failure. You can bet that if Apple suffered anything like its customers have, it would be all over the courts fighting for compensation for "damages".
As far as spending time and energy on the phone with Apple, I already have and all that's left as recourse is writing a letter.
Which do you think is more effective? Communicating with Apple or telling THOUSANDS about how Apple treated its long term, 24+ year loyal customer?
If you think the former, then I have beachfront property in AZ for sale for you.
My "rant" as it's been called in this thread is so Apple can "see" just what a dissatisfied customer looks like telling THOUSANDS instead of a satisfied customer telling merely hundreds - something else to point out in my letter, which I find hard to believe will be anything more than more exercise of futility based on how the legally fictitious "person", Apple Computer INC has behaved up until now. I don't think Apple has repented after spending time contemplating self reflection, even though it's been known for millenia that "The UNEXAMINED life isn't worth living." — Plato
Like all things modern, Apple picks and choses like a smorgasbord what it wants to "believe" is true, good, important, fair reasonable. See how Ayn Rand called her subjectivism "objectivism" as if she were the source of Absolute Truth. Remember, she is the goddess of Silicon Valley as revealed in "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace" by Adam Curtis — http://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/ — and her bogus "philosophy" the "reasoning" by which the inmates run the asylum, parading themselves as highly intelligent, responsible, etc. as if they know what's best for everyone as they always have. A tiger has never changed its stripes, and neither have power mongers.
Rand set herself up as goddess, as Absolute authority and judge of who is virtuous and deserving love on that basis and who isn't deserving, according to her. She is an legalistic goddess that's nothing like Deity that loves unconditionally the "apple of its eye", humanity whom it has created in its own image and likeness. Rand's so called "objectivism" is anything but, merely "subjectivism" lying and calling its Self "objective", rationalization all dressed up in drag of "reason", the raging of the mind gone beserk. Like most things "modern" she is the inverse of what she claims to be as is her "philosophy" (love of Sophia, wisdom) which by no means deserves such recognition. Yet this is the "thinking", the motivation on which Silicon Valley is built.
"I only speculated since it just doesn't make sense for Apple to offer a repair program and use old logic boards, knowing by now that the refurbished ones break down all over again. I just think there's a higher chance for any logic boards replaced from February 20th onwards to be new ones, but I don't know for sure. I guess you could ask the Apple people when you go in for repairs."
LOL - and what do you think those "geniuses" would tell you? Most likely what they think you want to hear if anything at all because a) they're clueless, or b) they've been told what to say by "admin" and they know to follow the Apple rules (control) or they won't have a paycheck.
Once again, it all comes down to "modern" economics, of which the Apple corporate culture is a reflection, like most if not all others.
It's a ruse, and filled with lies that the power mongers tell themselves in order to "think" they are actually doing "good".
Do you really think that's going to change just by spending a few hours on the phone with some underling who's just doing what they're "paid" to do, no differently than a prostitute? Seriously?
If you look at the inscription on the Steve Jobs concoction featuring Isaac Newton, you will note "A Mind Forever Voyaging…. Alone" which is a ripoff of a 1985 interactive fiction game — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mind_Forever_Voyaging
— which shows the truth of human creativity and inventiveness, that "no man is an island" and we are forever "borrowing" form one another, most importantly those who've come before us. Yet it is the "modern" peculiarity to selfishly claim that an "individual" owns such a thing as "intellectual property" as if they created such entirely on their own out of thin air, and then go to great lengths to "protect" their self proclaimed castle.
Whether the Apple has stripes or not matters not. For over 1900 years prior to the "birth" of Apple Computer, INC, the bitten apple and rainbow meant something totally different and revealing regarding what in the d(evil)'s gotten into Apple and the modern world that is creating this delusional, illusion, this big lie — "fallen" human nature (bitten apple) as personified in Pinocchio.
The "economist" claim that "THE modern world was made by Isaac Newton."
http://www.economist.com/node/2003425
But "modernism" actually began many centuries earlier with loss of understanding in Western Europe of communion/community as basis of cosmology, of Cosmos (Greek: Order)
Renaissance = man proclaims Self as the measure of ALL things
Enlightenment = elevation of human reason to status above ALL as god (in place of God)
"individual" vs Real Person
"corporation" (legal fiction) vs Community, Communion
blockhead, puppet vs real boy
fiction (lie) vs Truth
profit motive vs. Motivation to attain virtue
self interest vs. Altruism, Philanthropy (as proclaimed by Ayn Rand and implemented by Silicon Valley)
Icons In Today's World
http://aidanharticons.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Austin-Icons-in-Modern-Worl d-1.pdf
http://fatherdavidbirdosb.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-individual-and-church-eastern .html
All this is evidenced in how America politically loves to parade itself as a "christian" nation (i.e. manipulate "god" to its own ends, its own selfish delusional desire). Apple stands part and parcel in the midst of this theater of the absurd as leader of the pack, and in no way head and shoulders above it.
If Apple is "one of the best", then that's saying very little indeed.
Misdirection is multifaceted, and its multitude of faces are all ugly.
(Real) Beauty (Truth) will save the world. — Dostoevsky
Believe whatever, but the fact remains, our pre "modern" ancestors would not fall for such ruse, would not be such fools.
