This is fine and dandy if you live near an Apple store. If you don't, especially if you go overseas with a US bought product, things get much less pretty.

Non-US Apple has refused to handle my US warranties, so the only recourse was to ship it to the US for repair, which means you're without your machine for several weeks.

I think with companies like lenovo or dell that cater to corporate customers worldwide you probably end up with better service in more "remote" locations.

When I was living in NYC, owning Apple products was relatively painless because of the Apple stores there.