Ipad 3 glass?

[Rogzilla]

Hairline blemishes are usually in the coating on the glass, not the glass itself. (One MacRumors user went as far as to buff the coating off and in turn removed all scratches. Can't find the link to the thread right now.) If you can feel the scratches with your fingernail, they're in the actual glass.

Either way, all it takes is a single grain of sand to scratch a glass screen, even gorilla glass. If you are not particularly careful with the iPad, it will get scratched up. I would say start using a screen protector. It will hide the scratches and prevent further ones.

So I've got a TINY scratch on my new iPad, maybe between 5 and 10mm. Its small enough that it obviously isn't ruining the experience, but I can still SEE IT from time to time. I can feel it with my finger nail and it seems like it is magnifying the pixels a little (noticable on a lighter image), meaning that I see the blue, red, green, blue, red, green. I've got no idea where it came from as I am so carefull with it.

Would a screen protector hide that scratch too? If so, I'll go out and buy the ***** out of some screen protectors!

 

[Dangerous Theory]

So I've got a TINY scratch on my new iPad, maybe between 5 and 10mm. Its small enough that it obviously isn't ruining the experience, but I can still SEE IT from time to time. I can feel it with my finger nail and it seems like it is magnifying the pixels a little (noticable on a lighter image), meaning that I see the blue, red, green, blue, red, green. I've got no idea where it came from as I am so carefull with it.

Would a screen protector hide that scratch too? If so, I'll go out and buy the ***** out of some screen protectors!

Very likely, yes. Screen protectors hide a lot of scratches. It's just the thought that you know one day when you peel it off, the scratch will still be there

 

[Jessemtz25]

I'm trying to search the forums on this one, but giving the ipad 3 name. (the new ipad, ipad3 etc..) it makes it extremely hard to search for a thread. so sorry if I'm reposting this question.

I've had an ipad 1 since the day it came out and I got my ipad 3 the day it came out. I have a 7 year old daughter. and i gave her the ipad 1 when she was ~4-5 and long story short. she never scratched the ipad1, dropped it, used as a plate and god knows what else a 5 year old used it for.... but she's had the ipad 3 for what? 5-6 weeks now? and there are multiple 2-3 inch scratches in the screen. Did they use a different glass or something? is this a flaw in the ipad3 or they just use garbage glass?

Garbage glass, flaw or irresponsible parent?

 

[spiderman0616]

So I've got a TINY scratch on my new iPad, maybe between 5 and 10mm. Its small enough that it obviously isn't ruining the experience, but I can still SEE IT from time to time. I can feel it with my finger nail and it seems like it is magnifying the pixels a little (noticable on a lighter image), meaning that I see the blue, red, green, blue, red, green. I've got no idea where it came from as I am so carefull with it.

Would a screen protector hide that scratch too? If so, I'll go out and buy the ***** out of some screen protectors!

Hmmmm---maybe. I guess it depends how deep the scratch is. You can find screen protectors REALLY cheap on eBay--can't hurt to try.

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Garbage glass, flaw or irresponsible parent?

I don't know if it's any of these things. If you're a parent buying an iPad primarily for a child to use and then expecting no blemishes or scratches to appear on it after awhile, that's one thing. If you are giving it to him/her knowing full well it could get banged up, that's entirely different. No matter what the situation, you can't blame Apple for this or expect an exchange at no charge (I don't think the OP ever mentioned that he expected this or blamed anything on Apple.)

As much as my kids love my iPad, they're only 1 and 4. I would never buy an iPad for either of them at this age. 7 or 8 may be a little different, but I would still probably give them one I was replacing or find an old one on eBay somewhere. It depends on the kid I guess.

 

[Rogzilla]

So I got an invisible shield at Target.

And I took it RIGHT BACK. I felt like $30 was a lot to pay but hey, if it did the job, it would be worth it. After spraying it with the solution (WTF?) and laying it down, it just looked like crap! There were a bunch of black dots on the adhesive side of the screen protector and (probably through my own ineptitude) somehow got a bunch of lines on it. Image looked like an old tube TV through it.

So yeah, I'm gonna keep looking, find something that adheres without a magic spray!

 

[spiderman0616]

So I got an invisible shield at Target.

And I took it RIGHT BACK. I felt like $30 was a lot to pay but hey, if it did the job, it would be worth it. After spraying it with the solution (WTF?) and laying it down, it just looked like crap! There were a bunch of black dots on the adhesive side of the screen protector and (probably through my own ineptitude) somehow got a bunch of lines on it. Image looked like an old tube TV through it.

So yeah, I'm gonna keep looking, find something that adheres without a magic spray!

Anything over $5 is too much. Look on eBay.

 

[rz-jacks]

monoprice

 

[badpinoy]

So I got an invisible shield at Target.

And I took it RIGHT BACK. I felt like $30 was a lot to pay but hey, if it did the job, it would be worth it. After spraying it with the solution (WTF?) and laying it down, it just looked like crap! There were a bunch of black dots on the adhesive side of the screen protector and (probably through my own ineptitude) somehow got a bunch of lines on it. Image looked like an old tube TV through it.

So yeah, I'm gonna keep looking, find something that adheres without a magic spray!

did you get the invisible shield HD? you have to allow time for the screen protector to cure.

 

[Rogzilla]

did you get the invisible shield HD? you have to allow time for the screen protector to cure.

Another reason I returned it. If you're screen protector has to actually cure, you've done something wrong.

 

[dmccloud]

So I got an invisible shield at Target.

And I took it RIGHT BACK. I felt like $30 was a lot to pay but hey, if it did the job, it would be worth it. After spraying it with the solution (WTF?) and laying it down, it just looked like crap! There were a bunch of black dots on the adhesive side of the screen protector and (probably through my own ineptitude) somehow got a bunch of lines on it. Image looked like an old tube TV through it.

So yeah, I'm gonna keep looking, find something that adheres without a magic spray!

The spray is used to allow you to slide the shield around and get it into position, and works much better than just an adhesive screen protector. The black dots were most likely dust particles and the lines were due to not properly getting the air bubbles out.

But going back to the original topic, Apple has been using Gorilla Glass going back to the original iPhone:

Corning Glass Made iPhone Possible (Ithaca Journal)