Taking a walk through the Apple online store and tracking sales and others of the Apple Watch and the new 12-inch MacBook Retina, I noticed a detail for users who managed to buy one of the company's new watches and who want to protect it with AppleCare +.
This extra warranty service and coverage that the company has offered with its products for a long time is known to all Apple users, but with the launch of the new smartwatch, those from Cupertino have made an important change in service. The topic of coverage and others remains the same as before, this does not change, but now Watch users can purchase AppleCare + for iPhone and Watch at the same time.
At the moment this AppleCare + option is only available in the countries where the smartwatch has been launched, but we imagine that as soon as it is put on sale in the other countries will also be available. Apple users can contract AppleCare in Spain before the first two years have elapsed after the purchase: «the AppleCare Protection Plan to extend technical support and hardware repair coverage to two years from the date of purchase of your iPhone »so if we have an iPhone 6 and buy an Apple Watch, we can hire this service for both devices at the same time.
The fact is that this is a new possibility that obviously did not exist in Apple's idevice until the launch of the Apple Watch and that now we can enjoy the users who want to hire this service. At the moment it does not appear in Spain, but in the countries where the Watch has been launched and now we go with the prices.
AppleCare + pricing
In the case of buying an Apple Watch Sport in both the 38 mm and 42 mm models, the price in the United States is 49 dollars and if what we want is to also secure our iPhone, the combo will raise us up to $ 149. Coverage extends to 2 years.
For users who are going to buy or have in mind to get hold of the steel model, the Watch, things change a bit. the coverage is still 2 years and the price is somewhat higher. We talk about 69 dollars for the clock alone and from 169 dollars for the iPhone plus Watch set.
If we have bought or plan to buy a Watch Edition things change radically. The first the coverage time of the watch, which reaches 3 years and then obviously the price. For a watch worth $ 10.000 or more, Apple sets a base price for the $ 1.500 AppleCare + and if we want the set with our iPhone will cost us $ 1.600.
Obviously and looking at the prices of the AppleCare + for the Watch and Watch Sport we cannot say that Apple stretches when we contract the coverage on the two devices, but Apple does not usually make discounts of any kind and neither does it do so by contracting two AppleCare together. The Watch Edition model is made of gold and with sapphire crystal, so we understand that Apple heals in health and reach $ 1.500 for insuring it And add that $ 100 for the iPhone in total $ 1.600.
Now the question that cannot be missed, Will you hire the AppleCare + for your Watch if you buy it?