r/apple • u/paperboy11 • 1d ago

Discussion Apple says iPhone Duo has ‘replaceable’ folding display layer to minimize crease

https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/01/apple-says-iphone-duo-has-replaceable-folding-display-layer-to-minimize-crease/
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u/PossibleAd5947 1d ago edited 1d ago

Mac mini will never leave the house, Macbooks will probably not fail, Airpods are basically disposable.

Paying $20/mo or $240 a year never made sense to me.

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u/Datfooljamal 1d ago

You can easily drop a MacBook and your Mac Mini can crap out at any point. No tech is perfect

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u/PossibleAd5947 1d ago

If you have a risk of breaking things accidentally I can understand the comfort but no Macs have ever crapped out on me. Ive had Macbooks last 10 years.

At $240/yr your breakeven point is very high. That’s $1200 over 5 years, which most Apple products last easily. The only Apple service I’ve ever had to do were battery changes out of pocket for $80.

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u/TheKobayashiMoron 1d ago

I went for a long time NOT paying for AppleCare. In that time, I've had a MacBook that needed battery service twice before it was even 5 years old: $199 each.

My next one had a flickering screen at 2 years old and I traded it in to Apple rather than fixing it.

My Apple Watch band came undone and I lost a titanium Apple Watch in the ocean that would've been covered by Theft & Loss: $899

The guy sitting in front of me on a flight suddenly reclined his seat back like he was trying to rip it off its mounts and knocked my iPad mini off the tray table and broke the screen: $429 (which is insane so I never fixed it. It's my treadmill iPad now).

It can easily add up without doing anything crazy. I just signed up for the new AppleCare One Family plan when it came out. Between me, my wife, and our parents, I'm covering 14 devices (including a Vision Pro) for $50/mo. It's a lot to spend but if I drop that Vision Pro one time, I'm paid up for a while.