{"id":26595,"date":"2019-09-13T15:57:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T19:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26595"},"modified":"2019-09-13T15:57:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T19:57:24","slug":"applecare-indefinite-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/13\/applecare-indefinite-subscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"AppleCare+ Indefinite Subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/09\/10\/applecare-monthly-subscription\/\">Michael Potuck<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/09\/10\/applecare-monthly-subscription\/\">\n<p>Last year, Apple rolled out the option to pay monthly for some of its two (in some cases three) year AppleCare+ plans for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Today, Apple quietly changed how it works so customers can buy an indefinite monthly AppleCare+ subscription.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This sounds like customers can choose to continue the monthly AppleCare+ coverage as long as they&rsquo;d like or until Apple can&rsquo;t service the device anymore.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s also good to keep in mind that compared to the normal two-year terms (three years for Apple Watch Herm&eacute;s and Edition), Apple charges more for the monthly subscription compared to the upfront price. For example, two years of coverage for the iPhone 11 or XR will run $191 if paid monthly versus $149 upfront.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Unfortunately, this doesn&rsquo;t seem to be available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/products\/mac\/\">Macs<\/a>, where it would be an even better fit&mdash;both because AppleCare for Macs costs more up-front and also because Macs will likely be in service for more years.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/15\/applecares-limited-duration\/\">AppleCare&rsquo;s Limited Duration<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Potuck: Last year, Apple rolled out the option to pay monthly for some of its two (in some cases three) year AppleCare+ plans for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Today, Apple quietly changed how it works so customers can buy an indefinite monthly AppleCare+ subscription. [&#8230;] This sounds like customers can choose to continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-09-13T19:57:26Z","apple_news_api_id":"cb174a42-98ed-436e-8522-f49d8f106683","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-09-13T19:57:28Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AyxdKQpjtQ26FIvSdjxBmgw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[992,416,31,145,85,30],"class_list":["post-26595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-watch","tag-applecare","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26596,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595\/revisions\/26596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}