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Avon B7. I agree. Time will tell. the only issue is that their Laptops are thin and it's difficult to make them easy to upgrade and maintain their thinness. Some iMacs can have user upgradeable RAM, some can't. The issue is over the T2 chips with SSDs because their SSD's are specially tied to the T2 chip and it's for security purposes mainly. Do you want someone being able to take your SSD's out and hack into them? That's why they have to be tied to the T2 chip, it's to prevent hacking. It's just one of those situations where Apple's putting security as a priority over upgradeability since I don't think third party SSD's will work with theT2 chip, unless you know otherwise..

Let's see how long it takes for the Senate to do THEIR job. Also, who were the 3 votes against it? Maybe they should be excluded and robocalled forever. ;-)

gatorguy said:

The only way I can see Apple "losing" money on their repair program is by including products under the original one-year guarantee. AppleCare is obviously a profit center, just as nearly all extended warranty programs are.  If it wasn't they wouldn't be pushing them. Why willingly repair at a loss unless required by the original one-year free warranty that came with the device purchase. AppleCare is meant to profit, just as I believe out-of-warranty repairs are. 

We don't know all of their costs for operating their Repairs. If we saw their financial statements for running that portion of the business, then it would shed light on where the costs are getting out of hand. Now, they have been the target of a lot of illegal warranty repairs because people are getting away with warranty repairs even though the device they brought in was made from parts purchased from street merchants and non-authorized Apple shops, which they are trying to clamp down on, maybe that's causing them to lose money.

svanstrom said:

Cook has lost too much credibility the way that he sucks up to both Trump and China.

He's trying to get rid of tariffs on Apple products, which is part of Tim's job. Unfortunately, he has to work with a President with questionable objectives, but he's the one Cook has to deal with.

notwichred said:

I live in Kuwait.  No such thing here unfortunately . we don't have apple stores, only authorised resellers.

Your country does have a 14 day return policy, it's the law in that country.  https://www kuna net kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2473449&language=en