Maybe it is your eyes or glasses are dirty? I would go check this with your doctor. Also try to change brightness and see if it is getting better or still the same.
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All iPads On the verge of giving up - screen issues
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Maybe it is your eyes or glasses are dirty? I would go check this with your doctor. Also try to change brightness and see if it is getting better or still the same.
Dude just use it and enjoy it. There are far more important things in life to worry about. Besides, do you plan on having only this model for the rest of your life? I doubt it. You're most likely going to buy an iPad 6, iPad 7, etc. So don't fret over it, otherwise you're just gonna go through this nightmare year after year.
I used to be the same way. Believe me, it is so much better to stop over analyzing every aspect and just enjoy the darn thing.
No one is this hardcore over a house or a car (which is 100 times more expensive). Why do this to a $500 device that keeps getting refreshed every year? You're just gonna buy the next model anyway...
Let's sticky this, please. People buy houses with all kinds of hidden problems and suck it up (mostly because they have to, but nonetheless). If people acted the way they do with iPads, no one would ever buy a house because there would always be a ceiling crack, paint chip, etc.
What if the house or car were sold as being precision engineered and made with an incredible eye for detail? I'm thinking maybe Rolls Royce? I'd want that to be flawless at the money and due to their reputation.
Just a thought
I'd like to see one of these bad screens in person.
How is it some get a very good/perfect screen in one purchase, others keep trying and cannot after several?
How is it some get a very good/perfect screen in one purchase, others keep trying and cannot after several?
Perfect one first try!
same here. same as all of my apple purchases. some people just aint livin right
But the problem that exists is the way people view things on a forum...how many negative threads exist about screen issues etc. Then the next guy wants to buy an iPad so he creates a thread on what exact tests does he need to do to put his new iPad through to see if it has any ounce of an issue. BC all he sees are threads created and people complaining that they returned 7 iPads and are going back for more. It's pretty ridiculous. If you've gone through 7 iPads, there is more to worry about then the iPad screen.
If you go out there and do crazy tests of course you are gonna find a little something. Not everything is perfect and flawless all the time. New cars may have a tiny issue. I would like to see how these same people handle car and house purchases if they are acting this way with a $500 item. Unreal
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exactly!!
Yeah, because you know EXACTLY what I do for a living right? Stupid comments.
It's great how people who've never seen the issue would pipe in with some inane thought like, "just live life." Yeah, great advice. I spent over $800 on this thing - I'd like a screen that displays whites as white evenly over the entire screen. It has nothing to do with being OCD (largely because the problem is significant enough for anyone to notice). And it's not even something I spend most of my day thinking about. But it IS something that deserves attention on a public forum, particular for those who are experiencing the same. I could spend much less on a Nexus 7 with a nice uniform screen, but I like Apple and I'm thoroughly invested in the ecosystem. It's ridiculous that the competition can put out perfect screens for half the price or less.
What if the house or car were sold as being precision engineered and made with an incredible eye for detail? I'm thinking maybe Rolls Royce? I'd want that to be flawless at the money and due to their reputation.
Just a thought
They're hardly going to advertise as being 'knocked together by children in a Chinese sweatshop'
Can't really compare something produced in the millions with a luxury car made by hand that sells in the thousands which I'm sure very rarely leaves the factory without a few defects.
I wonder how much Apple could save with a change in returns policy? Perhaps cosmetic issues should be resolved through a repair rather than a refund or exchange?
I was told by an Apple employee that the yellowing is the glue drying and the problem resolves itself after awhile. Im like well take it back and sell it after the glue has dried.They're hardly going to advertise as being 'knocked together by children in a Chinese sweatshop'
Can't really compare something produced in the millions with a luxury car made by hand that sells in the thousands which I'm sure very rarely leaves the factory without a few defects.
I wonder how much Apple could save with a change in returns policy? Perhaps cosmetic issues should be resolved through a repair rather than a refund or exchange?
They're hardly going to advertise as being 'knocked together by children in a Chinese sweatshop'
Can't really compare something produced in the millions with a luxury car made by hand that sells in the thousands which I'm sure very rarely leaves the factory without a few defects.
I wonder how much Apple could save with a change in returns policy? Perhaps cosmetic issues should be resolved through a repair rather than a refund or exchange?
Repairing rather than exchanging is exactly what they're doing soon with iPhone screens, I believe.
To be honest, they probably MAKE as much money on having good service and liberal return policies as they lose on returns. The vast majority aren't going to return or exchange anything.
LOL, no kidding. The Apple employees are no better than forum members here sometimes.
No, he's totally right. Even if you need an ipad (which is just a totally hilarious notion) you don't "NEED" one that doesn't have a slightly gray-er 2mm strip on the left.
Sure it's annoying that it's not perfect, but your hyperbole hurts your image, it doesn't help. Simmer down, return it, try again, or don't.
What if the house or car were sold as being precision engineered and made with an incredible eye for detail? I'm thinking maybe Rolls Royce? I'd want that to be flawless at the money and due to their reputation.
Just a thought
But the iPad air is a consumer device that even dirty poor people can afford to buy because it is mass-produced in China by slave sweatshops workers. It's nothing fancy or exclusive.
They're hardly going to advertise as being 'knocked together by children in a Chinese sweatshop'
Can't really compare something produced in the millions with a luxury car made by hand that sells in the thousands which I'm sure very rarely leaves the factory without a few defects.
I wonder how much Apple could save with a change in returns policy? Perhaps cosmetic issues should be resolved through a repair rather than a refund or exchange?
True, I had Rolls Royce swap mine 5 times before I got a good one.
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Did your profession exist before April 3, 2010? That is the day that the original iPad was released. If anyone did your job before that date you do not NEED an iPad.
Mine does kinda seem a little more yellow on the left side of the screen in portrait.. But I never noticed it until I read this thread. I don't notice it enough to care.. My backlight uniformity is perfect when all black screen and I have no dead/stuck pixels. This is more important to me than this strange LCD issue we're noticing.. It's a tablet. I'm not doing photo editing on it.
Did your profession exist before April 3, 2010? That is the day that the original iPad was released. If anyone did your job before that date you do not NEED an iPad.
Web development existed before the iPad was released, but you need one to test sites on now.
Not a dumb question, but are you a man or a woman? The reason I ask is that there are some women who are tetrachromatic (most the rest of us are trichromatic, while those who are "color-blind" are bichromatic or monochromatic). Those women (perhaps 0.1% of the population) can literally see colors the rest of us can't, and will frequently see color variations that the rest of us won't. The downside is that their sons almost invariably wind up color-blind.