And after #BatteryGate, you probably have trust issues. Even with the best drop-proof case, you still might see a hairline fracture here and there. After all, you take it to work, the gym, the grocery store-everywhere. Out of your arsenal of Apple products, your iPhone is, no doubt, the most used and the most vulnerable to damage. Tl dr I rationalized not getting AppleCare because AppleCare only adds 2 more coverage years, and recent major hardware problems were covered by special programs regardless of AppleCare, extending for a longer period than AppleCare.Photo credit: Carsten Koall - Getty Images I am hoping the 2018's third gen keyboard will not need replacement, but if there is an epidemic Apple will probably just add 2018 to eligibility.) (Technically the 2018 models are not yet part of the program. So if I end up with a bad keyboard, I'm confident Apple will back it up. But like the motherboard problem, Apple is servicing 2016-2017 models with bad keyboards, and I think you get a replacement keyboard even if you don't have AppleCare, and like the GPU program, the eligibility period extends longer than Apple Care would have. Now we have the 2016-2018 keyboard with its potential reliability issues. (My first repair was $400 but fully refunded after the program was announced.) But after many months, Apple came out with a program and my model was eligible and was repeatedly sent in until the fix held. I actually never got around to getting AppleCare for that, and the GPU failed after the third year anyway. My previous MacBook Pro had a major motherboard problem (the discrete GPU failure scandal). I keep my Macs for 5+ years, so in all that time, AppleCare only adds coverage for two of those years. After year 3 you are on your own.even if you got AppleCare. AppleCare only adds coverage for years 2 and 3. The standard warranty covers the first year. But my new 13 inch Touch Bar was so expensive as configured, that I balked at adding the cost of AppleCare, and I did not buy it.

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