{"id":32370,"date":"2021-05-05T16:08:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T20:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32370"},"modified":"2021-05-05T16:08:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T20:08:01","slug":"extended-mac-applecare-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/05\/extended-mac-applecare-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended Mac AppleCare+ Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/04\/21\/applecare-for-mac-extended-coverage\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/04\/21\/applecare-for-mac-extended-coverage\/\">\n<p>In addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/04\/20\/apple-care-plus-apple-tv-first-time\/\">making AppleCare+ available for the Apple TV<\/a> for the first time, Apple is now allowing AppleCare+ coverage for Macs to be extended indefinitely in the United States, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT210580\">updated support document<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jcieplinski\/status\/1384926932152852481\">Joe Cieplinski<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jcieplinski\/status\/1384926932152852481\">\n<p>I wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised if AppleCare becomes subscription-only. It makes so much more sense to be able to cancel it whenever you let go of the item. And for them to keep getting monthly revenue past the three-year point. It&rsquo;ll more than make up for the loss in repairs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richfletcher\/status\/1384929779250515969\">Rich Fletcher<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richfletcher\/status\/1384929779250515969\">\n<p>Apparently you can cancel AppleCare and get a prorated refund! I know this because I didn&rsquo;t get around to it for a stolen iPhone &#x1F620;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/13\/applecare-indefinite-subscriptions\/\">AppleCare+ Indefinite Subscriptions<\/a><\/li>\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>Joe Rossignol: In addition to making AppleCare+ available for the Apple TV for the first time, Apple is now allowing AppleCare+ coverage for Macs to be extended indefinitely in the United States, according to an updated support document. Joe Cieplinski: I wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised if AppleCare becomes subscription-only. It makes so much more sense to [&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":"2021-05-05T20:08:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"76e9c969-ea6a-435e-82bc-fef20910d030","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-05-05T20:08:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AdunJaepqQ16CvP7yCRDQMA","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":[615,416,30],"class_list":["post-32370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-tv","tag-applecare","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32370","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=32370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32371,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32370\/revisions\/32371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}