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To: DevNet; Swordmaker
Once can determine how much faith a company has in its products by the length of the warranty.

No, one cannot. Warranties are determined using a statistical analysis. A company determines what percentage of a given product sold will require warranty work within specific timeframes. The company then decides how much it is willing to spend on warranty work. A statistical analysis then tells them how long to make the warranty in order to stay within the warranty budget.

You can make the crappiest product in the business, but give a long warranty as long as you budget for it. Conversely, you can make the best product in the business, but give a short warranty because you budget very little for it.

That was college statistics 230 (at least it was for me).

84 posted on 01/10/2009 9:17:50 PM PST by antiRepublicrat ("I am a firm believer that there are not two sides to every issue..." -- Arianna Huffington)
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To: antiRepublicrat

I know. Apple’s hardware isn’t any more or less reliable than any other name brand hardware - some of which is made in the same third party factory as apple’s. But that isn’t the image that apple tries to project - they try to claim they are more reliable because they are a premium product.

What is funny is that when they try to do something custom like the cooling for the g5 cheese graters they have a higher than normal failure rate. The product that apple sales that are modified Intel designs are more reliable then the inhouse designs.


86 posted on 01/10/2009 9:28:43 PM PST by DevNet (What's past is prologue)
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