You said — Hmmm, what company tends to void the warranty when you change a battery? Hmmmm, let me guess Apple, because no other company is stupid enough to pull that crap on their customers.
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If you tear apart your TV, when it’s under warranty, you’ll void it, too... LOL...
You better be real good when tearing apart something that is put together that well and with that much precision, into those very small and compact spaces, if you intend to do that while it’s under warranty — and expect Apple to make up for your own mistakes... :-)
But, that’s all phoney-baloney talk, because I’ve simply never had an Apple product fail under warranty. And most people have never had an Apple product fail under warranty. There’s just never a reason or an occasion to tear into it. If you want to replace RAM, no problem. If you want to get another hard drive, no problem. But, if you want to tear the thing apart..., I would wonder why you want to do that... :-) ... as there’s no reason.
The botom-line is that there is no crap to pull because you won’t find anywhere never even half, or a large number or a majority, or a super-majority of the Macintosh users that ever have to have warranty work in that period of time.
But, if you’re inclined to tear apart your Macintosh and see how all the pieces fit together, there’s no one stopping you... LOL...
Just to be fair, I did. Twice.
Once, the MacBook power supply failed. Took it in, handed it to the guy at the Genius Bar, he tried it out, handed me a new power supply, and wished me well.
Once, I blew out iPod headphones*. Took it in, told the greeter the line at the Genius Bar was too long for me to wait, told him I would gladly buy replacement headphones if they were available (they were not sold separately at the time), the greeter blinked, ripped open the nearest box containing an audio product, pulled out the headphones, handed them to me, and wished me well.
THAT is service.
I don't see where Mr. Blue is getting his delusions that the Genius Bar is a bunch of incompetent sociopathic sadists.
Unlike, say, Dell where I had to ship back the same notebook SIX TIMES before I got so fed up that I opened the unit, vaccuumed out the heat sink, and it worked fine afterwards.
(* - had an audio recording of the geologic sound of the Indonesian Christmas Eve Tsunami. Sub-base was incredible. Goodbye headphones.)