Is AppleCare Worth It?

[craigtaz]

My wife got an email from Apple today, offering to extend her 90 day warranty for a full year, for $78. Is it worth it? Does this cover damage is she drops it, like I did my iPad1 today?

Craig

 

[scifan57]

No,it doesn't cover accidental damage,only materials and workmanship.

 

[craigtaz]

No,it doesn't cover accidental damage,only materials and workmanship.

Too bad...thank you.

 

[graywolf]

Don't do it.
Waste of money

 

[Bennettb]

I had an accident with my 2. It got me a new iPad.

 

[mdjudy]

Don't do it.
Waste of money

Can you tell me why you think this. I also received the email.

 

[Epint]

Well there are better care plans than apple care. Normalyy you purchase those when buying the device. There are some that cover any damage to the device fully._
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[sjleworthy]

Privately acquired insurance can nearly always be a zillion times more effective, flexible and cheaper than official warranties

 

[Confucioux]

Use Squaretrade, it's MUCH better!

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[MikesTooLz]

My mother got the Extended warranty from BestBuy for like $100 on her iPad2.
She dropped it and shattered the screen, went to best buy and in about 10 minutes she was walking out the door with a replacement iPad2.

The nice thing with BestBuy warranty over AppleCare is that apple will replace with a refurbished iPad that they have there and BesBuy will just open a new iPad and replace yours with the new one. Also if you want to get a different model, they will put the original price you payed for the iPad onto a GiftCard that you can use to get something else.

 

[ipadfrog]

Apple care is ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT. It has replaced my computer and my iPhone. TOTALLY worth it. ALWAYS get it (and my family has had 31 apple products.

 

[freebirdforever]

Apple care sucks. Best buy warranty is awesome.

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[mdjudy]

Well I didn't buy it from Best Buy so I can't go that route. My friend also go an IPad 2 for Christmas, but last week dropped his and shattered the screen. Just made me wonder if AppleCare was any good. Thanks for the advice.

 

[joenissan]

Gotta love it when people answer without knowing what they're talking about. It's absolutely worth it because it most certainly DOES cover drops, breaks etc. It's $99 and $50 for each claim. You have a maximum of 2 claims for breakage in 2 years but they replace the ipad so....WELL worth it!

 

[txwj]

I have Apple Care on my iPad 3' , my iPhone 4S, and my iMac.

It not only extends the warranty to 2 years, it includes accidental coverage and technical support for 2 years. Apple support is awesome.

I got a AirPort Extreme and when I called for help to get my crappy work laptop pc working I found out that since I have apple care on my iPad it was extended to include my airport extreme. (Same thing would have worked because of iMac)

As far as apple replacing them with a refurb unit, apples refubs are like new, new screen, etc. plus they have a new warranty.

I would avoid best buy warranties, and a square spec might be ok, but in the end with Apple care, I have seen apple cover some things hey shouldn't.