elijahg

"Content harmful to children" is pretty broad. So a woman sending a topless picture to her SO is now a breach of Apple's rules? Or a screenshot of scene from a violent movie?

lowededwookie said:

apple4thewin said:

A friend dropped his iPhone 12 in a mop bucket and he immediately took it out but it was too late. It sucks but what can one do 🤷🏻‍♂️

My iPhone 12 Mini came out of the pocket on my SUP’s seat and went into the sea. About an hour later the tide went out and a crab fisher found it. I got it back and it’s been fine ever since.

It’s funny how something can work for some but not for someone else. But that’s electronics

Sometimes there are manufacturing defects. Those defects could cause a phone to be susceptible to water ingress when used in accordance with Apple's advertising. These defects are what the warranty is legally supposed to protect against - so that in case if something really does "work for some but not for someone else", Apple is obliged to rectify the problem.

sloth77 said:

foregoneconclusion said:

The warranty for Samsung Galaxy phones works the same way. Exposure to water isn't considered normal use under the warranty. In other words, it's not a product that is specifically made to operate in water. 

AFAIK, all phone manufacturers that advertise water resistance have a warrantee that excludes water damage.

Counter intuitive perhaps, but it is the way it has always been.

To be fair, AppleCare+ (unlike the standard warrantee) does have a clause that states repairs will not exceed $79 for water damage.

Adding an exclusion doesn't mean it's legal. It has yet to be tested in court.

eriamjh said:

The warranty doesn't cover water damage.

The phone is water resistant and sometimes, possibly, it may survive contact with water.  

When water damages it, it's not covered.   

When water doesn't damage it, it's still under warranty.

I know it's silly, but basically Apple is saying it might survive water exposure, but it's not under warranty when it doesn't survive.

The warranty agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. The law is precedent. Advertising something as IP67 (which is a defined standard, 1m submersion for 30 mins), with the phone getting wet in Apple’s own ads; and then saying “actually we don’t warrant using it in the way we are in our ads, nor do we guarantee the IP rating it’s sold with” is laughable. That’s like Ford advertising a car with 5 doors and saying we don’t warrant the doors if you use them. 

It's too expensive and it's too niche. Other than being a giant display for a Mac, what other productivity uses has it got? Very very few people are going to fork out $3500 for a headset even if there was a huge amount of 3D content and games, which there decidedly is not. Sub $1500 for a non-Pro and sub-$1000 for a "SE" and people might give it a go. Might.