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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Mar 2013
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Apple comes through for me...again.
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On Sat, 18 May 2013 14:20:07 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
The on-off switch on my iPhone 5 misbehaved once in a while. You could
press it and nothing would happen. Maybe once every 50 times, no biggie.
So, I was in Annapolis near the local Apple store this morning and when
the store opened at 10 am, I asked if one of the techies could see if
there was a speck of dirt stuck under part of the switch, or maybe just
replace the switch.
"We'll just give you a new phone," he said. He transferred my SIM card
to a new phone, I "registered it," and then downloaded the nightly
backup I do from the Cloud, and, in 20 minutes, I was on my way. The
"old" phones are shipped to an Apple depot, where they are taken apart,
fixed, and sold as refurbished phones.
I don't know what was wrong with the switch and...I don't care. 
I doubt they repair them at all. The slaves in China will bang one out
for a few dollars. It is not worth shipping them anywhere.
That's true. Cost more for shipping than it does to have the slave shop
just make one more.
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