iPod owners can dispute water damage
Pretty much every one of Cupertino’s world beating mobile devices, including MacBooks, have passive liquid contact/submersion indicators built in and if that’s pink (or white/silver, as the case may be) when you send it in for service, Apple wouldn’t fix it. Not a liquid related issue? Live in a high humidity area? Didn’t matter, because you’d be strictly S.O.L.
Among a crowd of others, AppleInsider writes that the mothership has tweaked its liquid submersion and liquid contact indicator policy. Previously, if any of the embedded indicators had been activated (i.e. pink or white/silver), the product’s warranty was considered void.
Well, Apple’s tweaked the policy to allow for exceptions, though how exactly that’s gonna play out isn’t clear.
This, of course, doesn’t mean Apple will repair an iPhone, iPad, iPod or MacBook when one or more of the liquid indicators has been tripped. Still, you might be given the opportunity to argue with the AppleCare rep and/or Genius, and that ain’t nothing…
What’s your take?
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