Apple to pay $53M settlement in iPhone, iPod touch warranty class action suit

Speaking of warranty, there is a side effect to Android's "openness" that is not often mentioned:-

Be careful when installing "unauthorised" ROM's they can void warranties.

The geeky looking customer was pretty p*ssed off over it, just gave him Samsung's number, they can deal with it.

GOOD! I normally side with the company on these sorts of disputes, but those first gen water intrusion stickers were garbage. The mic went out on my 3GS a few months after I bought it, and Apple refused to replace/repair it under warranty because the sticker in the headphone port showed pink. Now, I take better care of my electronics than most people do of their children, so I knew this was complete BS. After arguing back and forth for a week with different tech/customer service reps, I finally reached someone somewhat sympathetic, who offered up the revelation that exposure to humid climates or even being kept in a small bathroom with the shower running could be enough to give off a false positive reading. I was living in a small apartment back then, and since I was on call for work my phone went wherever I went. I thought it would be safe sitting on the counter next to the sink and nowhere near the shower, but evidently not. What killed me about the whole thing was the lack of common sense. If there was evidence of water damage once they'd opened the phone up, yeah I agree: charge for off warranty service. But there was absolutely no sign of that, other than the headphone port sticker, on the complete other end of the phone from where the bad part was located. The sticker inside the dock connector on the bottom of the phone was still white, but per Apple policy, even if just one sticker shows water, it's an open and shut case. Anyway, it took awhile but I finally got them to repair it on warranty, but the whole process was a lot more frustrating than it should have been, or I would have expected from Apple. It's a great company, but in this case they were flat out wrong, and they knew it as well which is why they moved to a redesigned sticker when they released the 4. That 3M, the sticker's manufacturer, even admitted to the defect in the original, is not surprising.

I always thought they were overrating the reliability of these indicators. I also always wondered if they would turn white again by heating them, like lab desiccants that turn pink and you just heat them up to dry them out till they turn blue again, which indicates they are dry. 

Now [I]there's[/I] a story that holds water.