Milo/KBPsen,
I can't believe you lot are still sitting up in your ivory towers thinking your vendor of choice can do no bad and that Apple is some big bad monster.
I can probably find hundreds or thousands of examples of non-Apple vendors ending up with similar headlines.
Hardware defects happen, curious contract terms happen ..... get over it and move on with your life ! (I suspect you'll find many other manufacturers with worse warranty terms than Apple).
Anyway, as I said, I'm wasting my time trying to persuade you lot to look at stuff in an unbiased and rational way. So this is going to be my last post on the matter, you lot can continue to rant away on your little soapboxes !