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Some iPad Air 5 Users Complain About Creaking and Build Quality Downgrade

thadoggfather said:
Could be both very easily
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I would say that it is not both. Their is still ongoing supply chain issues which lead to a bunch of back orders of the iPhone 13. I was finally able to do an early upgrade in store waiting for my cellular carrier to get more iPhones in stock due to Apple being unable to keep up with consumer demand.
 
This is something I always fear from a company that builds quality products. At a certain point of time they cut cost at a price that affects the quality of a product. It’s not the first time they did this. Hope this is a lesson learnt for Apple.
 
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HiVolt said:
I wouldn't be surprised if the procedure is to first communicate the concerns to Apple, and see what the response is. The fact that they had an answer already for the camera quality, "Apple is aware and will be fixing it", kinda points in that direction. And nobody will ever know the procedure it's all under NDA, unless someone blows the whistle so to speak.
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I mean that’s a fair point. But then I’d also also cycle back round to the iPad Air. Why not apply the same logic?

If reviewers reported the camera issues to Apple and as you say, Apple therefore had a quick response, why not also the same for the iPad? What would stop reviewers from also sharing concerns regarding the chassis and Apple providing a response?

I hear you. And I can totally appreciate the concerns that people have with impartiality in reviews. But it just doesn’t seem to make sense to me to pan one product, but not another if the goal is to preserve early access rights etc
 
Let’s not forget about mini6 jellygate

Problem/ not a problem

The reality is it’s a regression from its predecessor
 
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solo_riser said:
I stopped reading and caring after "posted on reddit" People just complain about everything these days. Just the world we live in.
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If you do not care you would not be commenting right now. Not to mention people paid good money for those devices that have the same build quality as a $150.00 chrome book. I would expect a better build quality from a device released by Apple.
 
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Might as well be made of tin right? I know that feeling. I still don’t understand why they dont use the 7000 series aluminum yet in the pro… These devices are really thin! They are using the same exact crap metal that helped create iPhone 6 Plus and bend gate. A device should never warp or have displacement from your inputs… Apple really has changed as of late. And they are way way more about the money now. But like this is anything new….
 
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Stunning_Sense4712 said:
My concern would be flex based damage to the internal components and possibility of the screen cracking due to the design of the product.
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You down voted my post but, my post was a tongue and cheek joke nothing more.

None of us here can reasonably say there is a design flaw or that Apple cut corners and made a bad product.
 
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Stunning_Sense4712 said:
If you do not care you would not be commenting right now. Not to mention people paid good money for those devices that have the same build quality as a $150.00 chrome book. I would expect a better build quality from a device released by Apple.
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I don't care about their concerns over the new iPad Air making a noise when they move it. I do care that they are not feeling well though and having a hard time of it. Maybe they just need hug.
 
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Apple_Robert said:
You down voted my post but, my post was a tongue and cheek joke nothing more.

None of us here can reasonably say there is a design flaw in that Apple cut corners and made a bad product.
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If the product is making creaking noises, able to feel the battery, the screens is easily warped by puting pressure on the back of the proudct I would imagine it is going to have a very high failure rate. Not to mention Apple can easily deny some of these warranty claims by claiming it was accidental damage, but I suspect that accidental damage determination could be highly questionable if the chassis of the devices is not designed well.
 
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Roberto1234 said:
Lol. Even macrumors haven´t mentioned it in their "great" review :)
These fake reviewers who will never say anything bad about a product which they got for free, really pisses me off.
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I was just going to say didn't the owner of this website purchase one for review and made no mention of poor build quality of creaking noises. Interesting
 
yegon said:
-64bit and 1gb ram - as the 64bit OS used a lot more ram than 32bit, very little left to work with. This meant unstable OS, crashy apps, and constant refreshes. Listen to a podcast, pause it with Control Centre (or whatever it was called back then), do anything else, press play in CC again and, oops, Podcast app flushed, music starts playing. Equally, partially write a forum post or equivalent, leave Safari to do something else, come back, oops, page flushed and refreshes sans the text you’ve typed. The painful workaround was c&p everything before leaving Safari etc.

-Plasticky feeling screen versus the glass of iPad 4 and iPad 3, less vivid colours.

The iPad 3 rightly gets panned for it’s launch time relative to the 4, and it was slow and heavy BUT it worked and was stable as it was 32bit & 1gb RAM. In hindsight I of course wish I’d waited for the iPad 4, but nonetheless I enjoyed the 18 months with the iPad 3. The iPad Air 1 went back within 14 days. Perhaps later iOS updates mitigated it somewhat, but I wasn’t prepared to take the chance, and there’s no escaping the fact that 64bit and 1gb RAM never should have happened. Had a similar experience with the 6 Plus, the worst iPhone I’ve had by far. The iPhone 3G was crappy in hindsight, lousy battery and splintered back, but it was great during the time I used it.
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Out of all the iPad I've owned (original, 2, 3, Air 1, Air 2, Air 3, Air 4, Pro 10.5, 2018 iPad Pro 11, original mini, mini 2 and mini 4) the iPad 3 was by far my least favorite. It felt slow and heavy right out of the gate (because it was). I liked my iPad Air 1, but that of course was coming from the 3. I actually had my Air 1 (after I used it my dad used it for several years) until I recently donated it to a senior softball league that they now use to control their scoreboard.
 
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