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Apple's warranty in the EU is not any longer. The 2-year "warranty" required by law is not the same and only covers defects existing from the time of purchase, and after 6 months the burden of proof falls to the customer. In practice I've never seen this play out because almost all manufacturers (with Apple being an exception) offer 2-3 years of full warranty here either way.
Not true, there is second year of warranty that needs to be given to customer by store where device was purchased. Only difference is you will ask you for receipt. (I work in Apple authorised repair store)
As I said, the 2-year period mandated by law is not a standard warranty, isn't as comprehensive and usually has a different name because of that. Most companies know that it's not worth it to debate people about it and just offer 2-3 years. Apple doesn't at least officially, it's also not a big secret that they've denied responsibility for faults in their products in the past.
Though on average Apple most likely isn't the worst company to deal with.