The warranty on a new platform is generous on purpose. It makes the first year or two feel covered and carefree, which is exactly when you're forming your impression of the total cost of owning the thing — and it conveniently distracts you from the only years that actually cost real service money, which are the ones after the warranty lapses. Nobody negotiates the service contract during the sale, because the warranty makes year three feel imaginary. Year three is where the device either keeps earning or becomes an expensive paperweight, and it's also where you'll have zero leverage to fix the terms if you didn't fix them up front.
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Warranty and Service-Contract Negotiation: The Clauses That Cost You Later
The warranty is generous because the service contract behind it isn't. The time to negotiate the years that actually cost you money is before you sign, not when the platform is out of warranty and down.
