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Offer Not Valid In FL (2/7/00)
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Since no horrendous fate has befallen us since our public speculation regarding governor Jeb Bush's "official Florida business" with Apple Computer, we'll have to assume that we may have been a little off the mark with that stuff about seismic control, tectonic extortion, and pulling strings in the Dubya campaign. No further information has come to light about what that "official business" might be, but AtAT's faithful viewers have a few ideas of their own. And those ideas, while pedestrian and not overly-bursting with drama, have a ring of truth to them: Jeb may have a bone to pick with Florida's specific and solitary exclusion from the list of AppleCare coverage areas.
You heard right, and Mac-using Floridians probably know this from experience: as faithful viewer F. Green points out, if you live in Florida, you can't buy an AppleCare Protection Plan for your Macs. Apple's own site states that "this Plan is not available for Florida consumers or where prohibited by law." So does Apple have something against Florida? Nope-- according to the mysterious informant known to us only as the sleeping dragon, Florida has some pretty stringent consumer protection laws which are intended to curb insurance fraud among the retiree community. For instance, apparently AppleCare extended warranties are considered "insurance" and a company must have a corporate headquarters or something within the state borders in order to sell insurance in Florida. Something like that. So the state is doing an admirable job of preventing Apple from bilking thousands of elderly Floridians out of their pension checks.
Who called this meeting between Jeb and Apple, we wonder? Is it Apple trying to get Jeb to relax the state's consumer protection laws in order to open up an additional revenue stream? Or is Jeb possibly concerned that his state is the only one in the union where people can't buy AppleCare coverage? Either way, here's hoping that this "official business" soon results in the lifting of AppleCare sales restrictions to Mac users who happen to live on a sunny peninsula with a relatively high population of gators...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/7/00 episode: February 7, 2000: All geared up for the AppleCare Technician Training program? Cool your jets until you get the facts straight. Meanwhile, Jeb Bush's "official Florida business" with Apple may have to do with AppleCare's exclusion of said state from its list of covered areas, and Intel's Pentium III may be running at a full gigahertz in "demo mode," but IBM can match that with the PowerPC-- and Motorola's 780 MHz version will actually ship someday...
Other scenes from that episode: 2080: Magic Aura Not Included (2/7/00) Hold the phone, Sparky-- don't go pushing your plastic at the Apple Store just yet. We're sorry if our discussion of Apple's new AppleCare Technician Training got you all juiced to rush out and join the ranks of the elite Apple-certified technicians, but several faithful viewers have since thrown a smidge of cold water on our enthusiasm... 2082: Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY!! (2/7/00) It's showoff time again: the semiconductor industry's equivalent of a monster truck rally. Welcome to the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, where chipmakers flex their megahertz muscles and square off in an alarming display of who can squeeze the most clock cycles out of their silicon...
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