Remember when “antennagate” turned into a big deal and Steve Jobs went out on stage and offered everyone a free case, as well as extending the normal 14-day return policy to 30-days? Good times. But, now it’s September 12th today, and the program is closing in 18 days.
While Apple is ending the overall program, which meant that owners of the iPhone 4 could get a free case, it also meant that Apple’s return policy was “upgraded” from 14-days to 30, and the traditional restocking fee of 10% was waived. But, those two features are going back to their old ways.
So if you purchase an iPhone 4 after September 30th, you only get 14 days to try out your new device, and if you do choose to return it, you’ll have to fork over that 10% restocking fee.
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Im pretty sure the delay behind the white iPhone 4 and reason for Apple to stop the case program is that they actually fixed the antenna design and possibly re releasing the iPhone 4. What makes me sad is my carrier (Rogers) is only allowing me until September 31st to upgrade from my 3GS. Its impossible seeming to even get a current iPhone 4
And you think MS is bad, what a way to screw your customers over, first with that flop the Iphone 4 along with a build in scew up, now they screw you once more with sorry we F’ed up with that crap phone now we dont want to fix it for you.
Well the issue was over blown, I think they the press went nuts with it and Apple even commenting on it, other then listing the percentage, was stupid. I have two iphone 4′s Both do not have the issue, and others in Canada who do have the issue have reported minimal signal loss and have to squeeze the phone tight. Now ATT may have its share of issues, but i believe poor signal quality helped make this worse. As for others issues, haven had them either. While i agree Apple is just becoming another larges company like MS, in terms of the iP4 they delivered what they promised. Same goes for MS and their products, in the end of both these companies didn’t deliver they wouldn’t be as big as they are.
There are still a lot of people (myself included) that do not have an iPhone 4. They are impossible to get here in Canada and at this rate I don’t see me owning one until sometime after the September 30th deadline. I don’t think it is fair for Apple to cancel this offer seeing how there are still others out there like me who will not be able to take advantage of it. Anyone else have this concern?