These have always been the rules and Apple sure charge enough of a premium in Australia (14% more pre-tax) to cover the additional costs. Plus it seems intuiti

These have always been the rules and Apple sure charge enough of a premium in Australia (14% more pre-tax) to cover the additional costs. Plus it seems intuitively correct to me - using a third party repair to refuse service on a completely unrelated issue is anti-consumer and all round garbage behaviour which has somehow become accepted as the norm in mobile phone handsets. Also, (and apologies for the tangent) I'm not sure how you'd describe a country whose last recession was 25 years ago is "struggling" (regardless of my personal issues with Australian politics).