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Fair point with the car example. I guess Microsoft could just suck it up and refuse to repair consoles under warranty if the user FUBARs them through bad repair

• arghwhat 5y ago
  In the EU, home or third party repair of a car cannot itself void a warranty. Microsoft would have to diagnose the problem as being outside the warranty. On the other hand, if repair is easy for third parties, warranty becomes far less important.
  • yellowapple 5y ago
    > On the other hand, if repair is easy for third parties, warranty becomes far less important. Exactly. Not a single car I've owned has been under warranty, and that's been entirely fine by me, because I can always take it to a shop or take it to a mechanically-inclined friend or fix it myself. Likewise with desktops and laptops; there's been no need for a warranty if I can fix it myself, and until recently (what with the "let's make everything as pointlessly thin as possible" craze) that's almost always been the case.