{"id":7413,"date":"2013-05-11T13:12:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T18:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7413"},"modified":"2013-05-11T13:12:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T18:12:07","slug":"more-in-store-iproduct-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/11\/more-in-store-iproduct-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"More In-Store iProduct Repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifoapplestore.com\/2013\/05\/10\/big-switch-more-in-store-i-product-repairs\/\">ifoAppleStore<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.ifoapplestore.com\/2013\/05\/10\/big-switch-more-in-store-i-product-repairs\/\"><p>The workload of Apple retail store Genius Bars is scheduled for a huge increase later this year, after the company introduces a revamped AppleCare product that includes a longer list of iPhone, iPad and iPod problems that will repaired in-house. The changes will reportedly save the company $1 billion a year, but could also significantly lower customer satisfaction with time-consuming repairs, instead of being handled in five minutes with a swap-out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The current swap policy is nice for those of us who don&rsquo;t live near an Apple Store, but perhaps actual repairs will make addressing <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/11\/stuck-iphone-power-button\/\">common hardware problems<\/a> more affordable.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ifoAppleStore: The workload of Apple retail store Genius Bars is scheduled for a huge increase later this year, after the company introduces a revamped AppleCare product that includes a longer list of iPhone, iPad and iPod problems that will repaired in-house. The changes will reportedly save the company $1 billion a year, but could also [&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":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","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":[38,101,452],"class_list":["post-7413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-hardware"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413","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=7413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7414,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions\/7414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}