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All iPads Were you satisfied with your first iPad?

Were you satisfied with your first iPad Air / rMini?

  • Satisfied with first device

    Votes: 102 70.3%

  • Returned one device, satisfied with the second

    Votes: 8 5.5%

  • Returned twice or more

    Votes: 35 24.1%
  • Total voters
    145
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TheAnvil

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Nov 25, 2013
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Simple question, were you satisfied with the first iPad Air or Mini with Retina that you received?

Thank you.

Please do not vote if:

1) you bought anything other than the Air or rMini.
2) you returned the device for any reason other than defects.
 
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I think I got a good one on my 1st try. 32-wifi-air. 15 hours of pretty hard usage, good screen(no yellowish tint), etc...

Now if apple would get it's ish together and fix safari in ios7, this consumption device might actually be a great item for consuming http(s) content.
 
Yep. Also I think that's because I'm not searching for a problem like a lot of ppl on this forum do. If I can't notice it then I don't care. But I probably bend lucky. Never had any problems with any iPhones or iPads brought.
 
32GB wifi+cellular retina Mini here. It fails the image retention test and has a bit of a pinkish hue on one side but these issues are only noticeable during tests and not during regular use, so I stuck with it and didn't return it.

If the issues do present themselves in normal use somewhere down the line, that's what AppleCare+ is for.
 
Only time I've had to exchange an iPad was for a larger hard drive. I'm pretty picky about my screens, too.
 
iPad 2 (refurbed) and iPad 3 new. The iPad 2 has a slight backlight on a corner, it wasn't worth returning. The iPad 3 was perfect for me in every way.
 
The results so far (37/3/8) demonstrate the OCD nature of returns. If all "defects" were real, we would see something similar to a gaussian distribution: exponentially decreasing results for increasing number of returns. If, for example, the defect rate is 10%, the probability to get two defective units in a row would be 1%, three - 0.1% and so on.

Conclusion: most of the returners are too picky and find problems where there are none.
 
samiznaetekto said:
The results so far (37/3/8) demonstrate the OCD nature of returns. If all "defects" were real, we would see something similar to a gaussian distribution: exponentially decreasing results for increasing number of returns. If, for example, the defect rate is 10%, the probability to get two defective units in a row would be 1%, three - 0.1% and so on.

Conclusion: most of the returners are too picky and find problems where there are none.
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I agree... the people on here blow problems way out of proportion. I got my iPad Air and have been enjoying it. But then I remembered about all of the people in here complaining about the yellow tint. It turns out mine has it as well. But I don't really care. It's only noticeable in certain situations, or if you actively try to look for it. When I'm using my iPad normally, I don't even see it. If there was something that actually affected the functionality of the device, I would return it. But not for something like this.
 
samiznaetekto said:
The results so far (37/3/8) demonstrate the OCD nature of returns. If all "defects" were real, we would see something similar to a gaussian distribution: exponentially decreasing results for increasing number of returns. If, for example, the defect rate is 10%, the probability to get two defective units in a row would be 1%, three - 0.1% and so on.

Conclusion: most of the returners are too picky and find problems where there are none.
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No display on any tablet is perfect, but I find the problem with the Air is too visible. It's very distracting to read when the background begins to shift in color. But most people are just going to shrug their shoulders at the problem, so it all depends how bothered you are by it. I wouldn't say I'm overly picky, and I didn't go looking for flaws when I bought the Air. I noticed the problem as soon as I opened Safari.
 
Jbru187 said:
No display on any tablet is perfect, but I find the problem with the Air is too visible. It's very distracting to read when the background begins to shift in color. But most people are just going to shrug their shoulders at the problem, so it all depends how bothered you are by it. I wouldn't say I'm overly picky, and I didn't go looking for flaws when I bought the Air. I noticed the problem as soon as I opened Safari.
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So what did you do? Did you return it?
 
samiznaetekto said:
The results so far (37/3/8) demonstrate the OCD nature of returns. If all "defects" were real, we would see something similar to a gaussian distribution: exponentially decreasing results for increasing number of returns. If, for example, the defect rate is 10%, the probability to get two defective units in a row would be 1%, three - 0.1% and so on. Conclusion: most of the returners are too picky and find problems where there are none.
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Someone being satisfied with an item does not mean defects do not exist. When you have people voting "satisfied" and then responding and saying things like "Mine has the yellow tint, but I don't really care" all this shows is some people are perfectly satisfied with defective units.
 
These numbers are way too high!!

It is almost a 1/4 of iPads have been returned, extremely unacceptable for such a premium price paid.

I am sure those numbers are unacceptable to apple!
 
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