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A comment on Oregon students returned thousands of fake iPhones, costing Apple $900k. Parent comment

Re:Oregon students returned thousands of fake iPhones, costi... by eridius on Friday April 05, 2019 @01:52AM (#19580064)
Water damage indicators are known to not be perfect. That's unfortunate but true. It doesn't mean Apple is deliberately making them be bad in order to avoid warranty replacements though.
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Re:Oregon students returned thousands of fake iPhones, costi... by tluyben2 on Friday April 05, 2019 @03:58AM (#19580622)
No, agreed. So in really humid weather, say, HK in the summer, the keyboard of the Pro breaks randomly if you do not care it in a watertight pouch and the indicators trigger. Not waterdamage as Apple means it to be and I have not had issues with replacements there but you wonder what the purpose of the indicators is then.
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