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A comment on Apple's service program for butterfly keyboard MacBooks, even out of warranty. Parent comment

Re:Apple's service program for butterfly keyboard MacBooks, ... by reaperducer on Friday July 05, 2019 @11:12AM (#20363090)
Apple is usually very good with this sort of stuff.

My wife bought a MacBook two months before OS X came out, so she had OS 9. When OS X came out, Apple sent free copies to everyone who bought a computer in the last 90 days.

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Re:Apple's service program for butterfly keyboard MacBooks, ... by spoppy on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:24PM (#20364172)
Presumably it was more of a PowerBook than a MacBook, since OSX came out in 2001ish and MacBooks didn't exist till they switched to Intel in 2006.

Sorry..

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Re:Apple's service program for butterfly keyboard MacBooks, ... by reaperducer on Friday July 05, 2019 @04:09PM (#20365447)
You're right; I remembered it wrong. It was an iBook. 10GB hard drive and a built-in DVD-ROM. I wish I hadn't sold it years later.
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Re:Apple's service program for butterfly keyboard MacBooks, ... by LanceH on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:07PM (#20364062)
Or they could just announce their product schedule that they know months/years in advance so the customer could make an informed choice.

No credit for fixing the problem they deliberately create.

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Re:Apple's service program for butterfly keyboard MacBooks, ... by reaperducer on Friday July 05, 2019 @04:09PM (#20365454)
I guess you've never heard of the Osborne Effect

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect

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