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Apple ruined iPad with iPad air display glass

I totally agree with OP. The screen on Air 1 is total crap compared to previous generations of iPad's and the new iPad Air 2. I actually purchased one (the Air 1) when it was still new, but I promptly returned it due to how the screen felt. I am still without an iPad and will wait till the next one is announced/released to see what is feels like before deciding if I want to go with the current Air 2 or whatever the new one will be called.
 
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Vessell...i agree with you on the cheap, thin, plasticky feel on the Air 1 screen. I actually returned it because of that issue alone. I prefer the solid glass feel of my iPad 4.
 
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YES YES YES YES X10000

I service a lot of iPad Airs + help family members with theirs + help clients with theirs and I don't like the sound they make when you tap... it sounds cheap and hollow. Ive been called crazy for noticing it though.

While not everyone may feel this way, OP I certainly share your feelings. My iPad 2 makes a far better sound when you tap, and so do the 3 and 4. Call me crazy, but it just adds to the charm of my iPad 2 which I never want to upgrade :p

Hopefully the Air 2 feels better.

Not to mention that my iPad 2 beats the iPad Air on battery life (well at least from what i've seen). The iPad 2 and 4 had/have spectacular battery life that seems to have gone down on the Air and again on the Air 2.

I'm not looking to upgrade till at least the Air 4, but I really do hope that they increase battery life, make sure it doesn't feel cheap and they put more ram in.
 
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I'm sure if Steve Jobs reviewed the unit he would also say it was substandard and shameful, even if some can't tell the difference
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If you're sure of that, then you need to accept the fact that Steve is dead, and the company he founded is never going to be the same company it was when he was still alive. To some (like you it seems) that means that nothing Apple does going forward will ever be right, and we can drag Steve's corpse out and say that the "never would've approved" any little thing we disagree with.

Of course, no one really knows what Steve would've done. Because he's dead and can't speak for himself anymore. Though the rational among us are well aware that quite a few decisions were made during his tenure that weren't the best call, and were later backtracked on, too. (iPhone 4 anyone? We don't need an app store? Who needs a mobile computing device?)

But if you're dead set not eh idea that Apple's best decision-making days are behind it, and are going to conjure up Steve Job's ghost every time you don't like something, this probably means it might be time for you to consider competing products.
 
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If you're sure of that, then you need to accept the fact that Steve is dead, and the company he founded is never going to be the same company it was when he was still alive. To some (like you it seems) that means that nothing Apple does going forward will ever be right, and we can drag Steve's corpse out and say that the "never would've approved" any little thing we disagree with.

Of course, no one really knows what Steve would've done. Because he's dead and can't speak for himself anymore. Though the rational among us are well aware that quite a few decisions were made during his tenure that weren't the best call, and were later backtracked on, too. (iPhone 4 anyone? We don't need an app store? Who needs a mobile computing device?)

But if you're dead set not eh idea that Apple's best decision-making days are behind it, and are going to conjure up Steve Job's ghost every time you don't like something, this probably means it might be time for you to consider competing products.
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yes the iPad Air made me consider competing products - my note pro 12.2 can do so much more and the glass doesn't feel like cheap plastic ; ) - I would NEVER buy an iPad air again or recommend it to anyone I liked - I hope you enjoy those hollow taps
 
The smudges on the displays are a result of the coating that all manufacturers put on the glass to prevent it from scratching (as well as any anti reflective coating). This coating, along with the chemically altered glass, and the ever decreasing thickness of the glass make it feel much different than the devices of old. I never owned an iPad 1-4, but I do remember older devices with nice glass screens that sounded quite a bit more like glass, as well as felt sturdier. New tech and an obsession with thinness has caused many manufacturers to produce materials that feel quite different than their counterparts of only 4 or 5 years ago.
 
Ignore the super-fans telling you you're wrong. You're not. There's a large gap on the iPar Air between the screen and the rest of the device which makes for an ugly hollow clunk sound when you tap on the middle area of the screen. That issue is non-existant on the Air 2. Unfortunately the Air 2 introduced two new issues - it vibrates the back and the glass like crazy if you have the volume above 3 bars. And the worst problem which caused me to return it - the anti-glare coating makes it near impossible to ever clean the screen of fingerprints. It's just ugly.
 
I'll own any product worth owning. I have owned more phones from both apple and competing products than most. I have owned the 2 & 3 , and Air. Owned an iPad Air 2 and sold it. Will own the iPad Air 2 lte (got it next to free).

I have owned most of the top android phones over the last three years or so. I have owned the nexus 7 & 9. Owned the surface pro 3....etc.

You get the point. I really don't have brand loyalty here. Good tech is good tech.

But when a product, like the original air, is so good that people complain about things such as a "hollow" sounding display....you know the company is doing something right.

Making such a big deal and posting a long thread, with a rebuttal to every post is a bit excessive.

Also, as someone said... Jobs is dead. So is Einstein and Winston Churchill ....but not ones drags their name out every time they complain about something. It doesn't matter what jobs would of thought, and frankly you can't speak for him, can you?

I love my apple products, but think apple has gotten a bit greedy with price and specs. That being said, Tim Cook is doing a hell of a job. Apple is the biggest and riches corporation in the world...despite that hollow sounding screen on the original air. Oh...and those smudges don't seem to be a major problem either. Apples biggest problem now is market saturation.
 
As long as theres senseless arguing over a now 2 year old iPad Air......I'm pissed the iPad 1 was sooooo thick. What were they thinking???!?!?!?!?!

Ok ok in all seriousness now. The Air 2 was deemed almost too powerful when it came out. Questions were asked like Why do we need triple core CPU and Octo-core graphics? 2GB of RAM is great though. All those questions are now answerd with iOS 9.

I feel confident they were trying to make split screen part of iOS 8 but it wasn't ready yet....but the hardware was. So we got the Air 2 that will surely run iOS 9 beautifully. All the videos and previews I've read say split screen works smooth as butter.
 
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