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I am from India. My 10 day old Macbook M1 Pro suddenly died with no signs of life. As sad that may sound its nothing compared to what happened next at the Apple
by mkagenius 4y ago
I am from India. My 10 day old Macbook M1 Pro suddenly died with no signs of life. As sad that may sound its nothing compared to what happened next at the Apple Authorized service center. The lady at the counter put a giant scratch across the Apple logo going further ahead on the case.
Now these service centers are so much afraid of Apple and its policy that she started parroting that its a cosmetic damage and Apple policy doesn't allow to replace it for that. I asked her I am not invoking my warranty, the scratch is done by you and you have to fix it.
Days pass and they divert me to the seller, who refused to replace the laptop due to the scratch.
The Apple Support in India is equally pathetic with no authority at all. Had it been the U.S. and someone at Genius store would have done that, it would have been much easier to get a new machine (it was just 10 day old) or atleast the display case replaced but welcome to India where consumer laws take the second seat and Apple's policy take the first.
After all this, I had to call the police and when the police came the service center gave me in writing that they would replace the display.
Filing consumer case now against Apple for the harassment, preparing the docs. If you are from India and want to join in - drop me a mail.
Edit: forgot to mention the popping sound on my older macbook from 2017 with touchbar. Will apple do anything about that? Seems it is also clueless.
- Fradow 4y agoI'm surprised the popping sound doesn't surface much more than that. I recently bought a 2021 M1 Macbook Pro (so a 2K€+ machine) and this popping sound I get when I use the built-in speakers is awful. After Googling around, it seems this issue hits a lot of people and dates back to the first M1 Macs being released (nearly 2 years now) and has still not been properly addressed (and I never found a workaround other than plugging headphones and just not using the speakers). And as you said, Apple seems clueless about it.
- mkagenius 4y ago> popping sound I get when I use the built-in speakers is awful. My issue might be a different one, it comes when I touch the display back side (and sometimes just randomly). I did some research and it seems to be caused by expansion and contraction of some kind of metal inside the body.
- bluedino 4y agoIs the problem here with Apple or the 'Apple Authorized Service Center'?
- mkagenius 4y agoThe root of the problem is essentially Apple since there is no other way than going to these service centers. Moreover the policy fears are so much instilled in these service centers and Apple support people that they can't even see whats the right thing to do by the customer.
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