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First and foremost, water resistant is not the same as water proof. If that were the case they would have to take the entire watch industry to court. 

Second, Apple referred to industry standards of water resistance, and these standards clearly specify the circumstances and conditions of testing, etc. it’s the whole point of referring to a standard and of having well defined standards that one does NOT have to restate over and over the specific of the testing and conditions.

And last but not least, there are other liquids than water, so of course advertising water resistance doesn’t mean excluding liquid damage. You can drop your phone into battery acid, molten lava, corrosive salt solutions, boiling water, crude oil, etc. etc. all of which are liquids, and even if the phone were advertised as water proof and not just water resistant, that would be no reason not to exclude liquid damage from the warranty, as temperatures, acidity, conductivity, corrosiveness etc. vary widely among liquids and can damage the phone irrespective of whether it’s water proof, water resistent, or unprotected.

Just another bankrupt, corrupt country trying to get on the good side of the voters by attacking the supposedly evil corporate overlords and extracting money from them, with the result of them having to get it back somehow by squeezing their contractors yet another bit more or raising prices.

People don’t get it: corporations cannot pay anything, they are pass-through entities: it’s always people who end up paying, and that means consumers or workers.