What do you mean, 'statutory warranty'? At least in the US, aside from a few specific circumstances (door to door sales for example with a '3 day cool off' period) there is no mandatory return policy or timeline.

There is a U.S. federal law which gives warranty of merchantability among others (not sure about E.U.).

A major store sold me an expensive item that didn't work, and the store's return policy didn't cover it, so the store said file a warranty claim with the manufacturer. I just did a credit card charge back instead, because the store has to sell me something that works.

If for whatever reason the credit card charge back didn't work, I could use the store in (small claims) court and win.

AI: "The implied warranty of merchantability is a legal guarantee that a product will function as expected for its ordinary purpose, such as a toaster toasting bread. It is automatically applied to most consumer goods sold by merchants and does not need to be in writing."

Typo, should be: "could sue the store"

I swore I fixed that earlier.

Is it the iOS keyboard?!

That sounds like another problem then :)

In the EU (or maybe just my country of origin?) there is certainly statutory warranty. Length and coverage varies per product category.

rillian was so very helpful to me as an early engineer. I was trying to leverage Ghostscript libraries to format prescription labels for thermal printers - over serial or usb+serial connectors and using very questionable printers. It wasn't Ghostscript's problem but he was so kind in directing me to the right people to help and even following up to see if my problem was solved.

RIP, Ralph.

My barber earns his fat tip by being my therapist.

I get it. That's worth the compensation.

They stopped signing new enterprise contracts. Enterprise contracts are what pay the bills in most PAAS/SAAS offerings.

If it's not dead now, it'll die soon enough.

Exactly. Anyone knows how corporations make decisions knows this announcement was lighting a fuse on the bomb. It's just one strategic vision rethink or executive team change away from exploding. They have no long term reason to keep it alive which means it's only a distraction.

If the latter were true, the permits would have never been granted. The permits took years of back and forth, public and government commentary.

The former is a threat vector but one that can be priced into the ongoing maintenance costs.

You're absolutely right!

My bad. I placed a small buy at around $120, afterward it immediately tanked. Sorry folks!

Not sure about warranty, but a few years ago my mother's 80s(?) era Delta faucet started leaking. I sent a blurry photo to Delta's service team and a few days later had a link to a replacement part and an old manual scanned as a PDF. For a 40 year old product!

Ultimately we replaced the whole faucet and fixture, but that single reply probably made me a customer for life.

> Maybe it will inspire them to hire more engineers

Given Apple's recent software quality, this would likely just let them ship more bugs.

Or in person ads that are so ridiculous you can't _not_ remember them.

I'm talking to _you_, "Yo, Pain Law, Yo" subway guy.