And if you are going to revoke someone's warranty. You had better be able to prove, it was the fault of unauthorized workmanship and/or products. Just saying it doesn't have Apple's OEM components in it will not fly. That is all I'm saying. I'm not saying not to revoke a warranty. I'm saying not to revoke a warranty unless their is reason other than simply non-OEM components.
Apple (or anyone) does not have the time to prove/find/discover each warranty claim to the level in which it would take. By then, you have also upset the "customer" who is abusing the warranty saying "apple screwed me over" either because they truly believe that or they are just being vindictive.
Apple has the best customer service in the business to most reports and from people I have talked to as well as seen myself. Would hate for people like in this thread to mess that up for people. Especially more so if someone doesn't even use iphones. Like I suggested before, if a person doesn't like a company, you are not forced to buy from them. I "not" buy things every day from companies that I don't like even including Apple. If I can do it, I am sure with enough practice almost anyone can.
When I buy a product I have no idea whether I am going to be unlucky and need a repair, and may not necessarily have time to survey all the makers, and gather statistics, and understand their repair procedures and facilities in order to make a most informed choice. In the real world, I might even be persuaded by marketing. It is NOT enough to say "you've made your choice...you get what you deserve", which is pretty much what you are saying.
Apple has exhausted its rights to the hardware: whoever has bought it owns it. That's true in most of the world, just that Apple chooses to use it's muscle, and lawyers, to try and extend it's control over a phone in Norway. As long as an owner does not break copyright law that owner should be entitled to do as he or she wishes with that hardware, as should any repair shop.
Ownership is a fundamental concept of law. It's a bullying tactic for a large corporation to treat your phone as if they still own it.
Apple's purpose in trying to control repairs is to increase its own profitability. It has no right to do this in most of the world, though of course market position and other tactics might be used to get what it wants.
There is such a thing as unfair contracts: and courts can rule against them. Please don't tell me that the owner would have checked some box on a 100 page "terms and conditions" at the time of purchase. You can't sign away your rights in law. If you own it, you own it.
Anyway, this was not about warranties, which is what you have turned the discussion into.
This is about a huge company using its size, and muscle to bully the little people, and by extension customers. Corporations want to have complete control of how their product is used. What next: a phone which deactivates when it hears you criticize it's manufacturer?
Some of the product behaviours being designed in, or uploaded, by makers appear to me to be almost exactly equivalent to ILLEGAL HACKING. Malicious code designed to render a system inoperable.
It's strange to see the "little man" fighting in the corner to preserve the rights of big corporations to take control of the marketplace ..
