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Well since you're in the UK EU law applies and you get a 2 year warranty on all the Apple stuff you buy. They just keep it on the down-low. Two years is a reasonable life for a device now I reckon before trading up.

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My main machine is a Lenovo T61 manufactured in 2006. My backup machine is a T400 from 2009. I have an HP48 manufactured in the mid 1990's still. All work perfectly.

2 years is taking the piss. Seriously. I feel people have been programmed into thinking this is acceptable.

I still have a MacBook from 2006 that's still ticking along fine, naturally it's no longer my main machine. Stuff is gonna fail, and as it ages it's more likely to fail. You could increase the length of warranties but all you end up doing is passing the cost to the end user any way with bumped up prices. I think two years is acceptable. After three years spares for stuff like iPhones/iPads and MacBooks are cheap as dirt on eBay anyway. So repairs are usually easy (people have learned how to do it) and cheap. Also usually if it fails after 2 years I reckon that's probably more down to abuse any way. I know plenty of people who have more money than sense when it comes to looking after their equipment, I had an ex kill a plastic MacBook my continually using it on her bed, it blocked the vents and the thing would cook.

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