I do see a slight dark band and a couple of dark spots that could be dead pixels in the lower left. But that doesn't mean it looks anything like what it looks like in real life.
Wait, even though I've expressly said that what that photo shows is exactly what I saw in real life, on 4 different iPads, what I saw in real life isn't real life? It's not my photo BTW.
More and more? You just made that up.
I read this board every day. Nearly every day for the past few weeks, there's a new *different* person(s) chiming in with similar complaints about the screen. And it's not just here. There's a 30 page discussion on the Apple forums, a long thread on avsforums, another on anandtech forums, and several other places around the web. The story got picked up by cultofmac yesterday. Is that more and more enough for you? Google "iPad 3 tint" for this past month and tell me people are not buzzing about the screen.
Irate? I think it's hilarious.
One particular user in this thread stated he has returned zero iPads because he is not "an idiot" or "crazy". I asked him directly to tell me the photo posted in this thread shows a screen that looks great, and that the person who posted it and returned the iPad is a "crazy idiot". He refused to do that, instead resorting to attempting to call my sanity into question. When I pressed him for a serious reply again, he deferred again to name calling. I asked him once more to tell the world that photo shows a good screen. I missed his reply, but I guess it was pretty ugly. He is now banned and I have the following message in my inbox...
Subject "You are a moron"
"I hope someone in your family dies soon."
So, yeah, I'd say irate is a pretty good description of how some people are reacting to hearing that the iPad may have increasingly widespread issues.
Bottom line, mass produced products are going to have a few minor defects, always. A dead pixel or two in bleeding edge displays is going to happen sometimes. If they're in a really bad spot, okay, return it. It's not the end of the world, or Apple as we know it ...but I repeat myself.
Agree 100%. But I will tell you this, there have been issues with screens of iPads past...a quick search of the macrumors iPad forum will show that. But that search will also show that there are far more complaints about the screen this time around by comparison. And we're not just talking a dead pixel here or there. These complaint point to a fundamental problem in either the manufacturing process, or a shortcoming in the technology itself, or perhaps both.
The other big difference is, last year, people who had issues exchanged their iPad and got a better one immediately, or maybe after 2 exchanges, 3 tops. But now we have multiple people reporting multiple returns, for the same reasons over and over. Logic dictates that there are a lot more problematic iPads out there than people seem willing to admit.
And that is one of the big reasons people are getting irate...no one wants to be considered part of the masses, and certainly don't want their powers of observation called into question. Everyone today is trained to think they're special. People also put material things on a pedestal and attach their own self worth to them like never before.
Some people think that if their iPad isn't perfect, somehow they're not perfect. This goes for the "OCD" people as well as the OCD haters. Some "OCD" people want a perfect iPad so their Utpopian fantasy of Apple perfection isn't disrupted. The OCD haters are mad at the OCD people for pointing out flaws because they can't bring themselves to scrutinize anything at that level, for fear of what they might find, or a fear of not being able to find what the next person can see plain as day.
