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Originally Posted by bbusybookworm
Inherent defective can mean a lot of things in the law, but usually means that is not fit for its purpose or has a defect in the workmanship.
Now as you said it could be a inherent defect that lead to to it breaking, but the argument against that is that it does not cover accidental damage.
I.e. it was meant to prevent shoddy workmanship, not hold the manufacturer libel for misuse or damage caused by the user. Most electronics have to treated with care, otherwise you risk damaging them.eg. dropping and breaking a mobile phone or laptop does not mean that its is defective, it means that it was not used properly or within the products limits.
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In Swedish courts the stated intention (i do not know if there was any real case) from the justice department was that if for example a TV set breaks inside 2 year it was defective from the beginning.
And it is relatively easy to see on electronics if a problem is caused by external force or not. I really do not believe that the internal functioning of an IC can be broken by external force for example. And a correct soldiering is very hard to break also.
My Cybook have now broken totally and it is the screen controller problem so we will see what happens.