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Apple Refuses to Repair iPhone That Shattered in the Cold

Posted January 13, 2011 at 1:49pm by iClarified · 24125 views
Apple is refusing to repair a Norweigen iPhone owner's device after it shattered due to the cold.

Maybe this is all apocryphal, but a woman in Norway, while wandering in the icy wastes of the frozen North in minus 14-degree weather, picked up her iPhone only to find it had shattered in the cold. She took the phone back to the Apple Store and the geniuses refused to repair it, citing that the phone is not designed to withstand temperatures below freezing or above 35 degrees Celsius.

If Apple sells the iPhone in a country that has an average temperature below zero for several months of the year, do they really expect people not to use their phones?

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