MacBook Pro mid 2010 13 inch battery?

Question

Hello,
I remember my old MacBook's (white, early 2008) the battery showed things like : "Replace soon" and so, but on my MacBook Pro it went to Service Battery immediately.
Now it seems it still holds as much as charge as it did before, so I don't know if I should replace it. First I'll try calibration. I already reset pram and everything… Shouldn't the cycles be up to 1000 at least? This is why I bought this MacBook at first place.
According to Mac notebooks: Determining battery cycle count it is 1000 cycles, but I've only charged it 420 times.
What can I do to improve my battery's life and why isn't it 1000 cycles as Apple promised? I have a feeling I will never buy any Apple products again if I have to say goodbye to my battery soon. Disappointment after disappointment ;( Hopefully it can be still saved without a replacement.
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Answer 1

Melophage wrote:
Apple states that the battery’s maximum cycle count (note that key word maximum) is 1000 before it is consumed;
It's quite important to remember that the lawyers added two wiggle words to convert a tech parameter into Legalize (my emphasis in bold italics):
The built-in battery of your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air is designed to deliver up to 1000 full charge and discharge cycles
[from http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html under the section, "Your New Notebook"]
That means they don't HAVE to replace a battery that signaled "Service battery" but is otherwise not showing signs of failure like leakage or short runtime.
ToWhite-1: Were it I and I were getting reasonable runtime, I'd be inclined to ignore that warning for the time being and simply watch for sudden changes or a catastrophic drop in runtime.