Don't Buy Your iPad Or iPhone From Apple; Buy It From Your Wireless Carrier So You Won’t Get Screwed By Apple The Way I Did Hot

Two weeks ago, my wife and I were helping our daughter, a senior at NYU, move in to her new place in Manhattan. We all piled furniture and clothing into the car and were set to leave, when I realized that we had no wire to hang a painting. So I ran back into the house in search of picture-hanging wire.

 

As I walked back to the car, my adorable daughter, Alison, who is about to turn 21, was sitting in the back seat and making a goofy-looking face at me. So I did the same back to her. While I walked to car, I contorted my mouth into a bucktooth grin right back at her.

 

I was so preoccupied,  I forgot to remove the iPad from the roof of th car.

 

Yes, I drove off with my iPad on the roof of my car.

 

By the time I realized I did not have my iPad in the car with me, I was on the Long Island Expressway (LIE), one of the nation’s most traveled, dangerous, and congested highways. I pulled over to look for my iPad, but it was gone, not on my roof and nowhere to be found.  

 

I called our next door neighbor and frantically asked him to look for the iPad in our driveway. He retraced my three-quarters-of-a-mile route to the highway from my house. But my iPad was gone.

 

I did not get too upset, however. I buy insurance on all my phones from Verizon and my iPad would surely be covered.

 

I called Verizon on the way into Manhattan to report the tragedy that had befallen my beloved Apple tablet. Verizon told me I was covered through an insurance policy with Asurion. All I had to do was file a claim. I went online that evening to make the claim and called Asurion. But there was a problem. They had no record of my buying the device.

 

It turned out that I bought the iPad directly from Apple. And, although Verizon is my wireless service  on the iPad, buying it from Apple meant that I did not purchase an Asurion insurance policy on the device.

 

And, even though I purchased Apple iCare+ for my iPad, that protection policy was not the same as insurance. Apple iCare covers a broken iPad but not a lost or stolen one.

 

What's infuriating is that, if I had purchased my iPad from Verizon, it would have had an insurance policy covering the loss. Worse still, if I had a single shard of Monster glass remaining from my iPad, which undoubtedly was smashed on the LIE, Apple says it would have replaced the device.

 

Apple is a great company but it’s as greedy and evil as any other company. The same way that it is screwing consumers today by changing the power cord connector to make everyone with an iPhone buy a new power cord for their home and car to charge the new iPhone 5, Apple screwed me.

 

Imagine, buying the iPad fireclty from Apple instead of from Verizon put me at a disadvantage! iPads bought from Apple cannot be insured!  

 

Don’t make the same mistake. Buy your iPad and your iPhone from your wireless carrier. Otherwise you risk getting screwed by Apple the way I was.