{"id":24844,"date":"2019-04-02T15:21:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T19:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24844"},"modified":"2019-04-02T15:21:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T19:21:54","slug":"withholding-applecare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/02\/withholding-applecare\/","title":{"rendered":"Withholding AppleCare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigel Kersten<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I don’t think I’ve ever really told the story on Twitter about the time Steve Jobs sent me a polite but dismissive email and then proceeded to make my life at work rather hellish.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

So these new Macs came out and you couldn’t run OSX 10.3.9 on them, only 10.4.x<\/p>\n

But Pro Tools wouldn’t run on 10.4 and digidesign were not looking like they’d have support ready before the start of the school year.<\/p>\n

So I started poking at 10.3.x to see if I could fix it.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

I get a phone call from AppleCare<\/p>\n

“Hi I have to tell you that if you run those computer labs on OS X 10.3 we’re not going to honor your warranties for any of your Macs. Been told to tell you. Bye”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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