That won't happen unless the tech media picks up the story. (GateCon 8) When will that happen? When a blogger themselves or a family member experiences the issue.
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I honestly think the ship has sailed on this issue with Apple. Nothing is going to come of it with them outside of handling individual issues on a case-by-case basis.
If this happened in cars there would be a product recall to rectify the problem irrelevant to the age of product.
so why does this not happen to iPads.
i have a 2017 iPad Pro 10.5” bought new in 2018 nov so not in warranty, I can shell out about £150 for a OEM replacement but if it’s a global problem why should I have too.
apple get your products in order as this was an apparent problem while they were still selling them, can’t tell me they did not know as they were replacing iPads under warranty with this problem.
so why does this not happen to iPads.
i have a 2017 iPad Pro 10.5” bought new in 2018 nov so not in warranty, I can shell out about £150 for a OEM replacement but if it’s a global problem why should I have too.
apple get your products in order as this was an apparent problem while they were still selling them, can’t tell me they did not know as they were replacing iPads under warranty with this problem.
Not really a good analogy - car recalls are made due to safety defects that can affect not just the owner but other drivers. Same is true with most other product recalls. Big difference between that and something like a white spot on a display. Issues like this are usually handled as repair/replace on a case-by-case basis by the manufacturer. The problem here is that Apple has chosen not to recognize this as an endemic manufacturing problem and hasn't issued a statement acknowledging it and providing a clear repair/replace policy.
Hahaha, this is so true! I use Apple since 2011, had at least 10 products and faced SO many hardware issues that were never fixed and got worse with every new model... we definitely need to find a well known journalist having white spots on the screen.
yeah the only way we can get help is through a journalist
This issue has popped up on sites (not forums) and YouTube for some time now and nothing has come of it.
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/12/19/ipad-pro-2017-home-button-bright-spot/
https://consideringapple.com/apple-...fering-from-bright-spot-above-home-button/337
https://www.newsbytesapp.com/timeline/Science/38877/172149/ipad-pros-marred-by-bright-display-spots
https://www.valuewalk.com/2018/12/2017-ipad-pro-bright-spot-issue/
https://www.phonearena.com/news/White-light-above-home-button-mars-iPad-Pro-displays_id112236
I meant anyone opened the device? To check if it was a swollen battery for example? Could not find anything.
thanks! thats a really good compilation...now all we need to do is combine some photos posted to this thread of the problematic ipads and put that together into a website and i think we'll have a full story about it. once the pictures and proof are all in one place, it'll be a lot more attractive for a journalist to shed light on this issue again since the info is all there and they don't have to dig and do research. the barrier to entry for the journalist is a lot lower.
iPad Pro 10.5" Teardown
Apple is at it again, trying to win over the workforce with yet another iPad Pro (this time with a brand-new 10.5" screen size). We expect to see...
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looking at the guts inside, it seems the logic board is in the middle where the spot shows up.
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maybe the heat from the logic board causes that spot to brighten?
iPad Pro 10.5" Teardown
Apple is at it again, trying to win over the workforce with yet another iPad Pro (this time with a brand-new 10.5" screen size). We expect to see...
looking at the guts inside, it seems the logic board is in the middle where the spot shows up.
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well they do come with clean screens but later develop this bright swatch.
well they do come with clean screens but later develop this bright swatch.
So, my local Kroger affiliate has brand new 10.5 IPP for 499.99 and 599.99 for 64 and 256 gb respectively.
Any of you 10.5 IPP owners still think it's time to buy one?
Any of you 10.5 IPP owners still think it's time to buy one?
I personally wouldn't buy them at most any price.
I'm jaded though - I went through 4, 5, 6 (maybe?) replacements between December and a few weeks ago when I finally just sold the "new" replacement they sent me.
I could never get one that wouldn't start making a "pop" noise when scrolling depending upon how I would hold it where the bezels met the screen by home button/FaceTime camera.
I do appreciate, very much, how they kept replacing them, but the super quick turnaround, no questions asked, nature of it did make me think that it was maybe a "known problem" they just didn't want to own up about?
Depends on who you ask. Mine has been perfect for 3 years now.
I agree with this.
My uncle has one that he got right when they came out and it's been 100% perfect for him.
Me however - just got lemon, after lemon, after lemon.
Definitely YMMV on the 10.5's
I wish I'd never sold my iPP 9.7 that I had before the 10.5.
As it sits now, I don't even have an iPad as I'm not sure which direction to go.
I''m in the same boat, Turbineseaplane. Sold my old third get iPad and am using my MBP and my iPhone 8. Missing the immediacy of access for the bigger screened iOS device!
I'm thinking about trying out a Mini again as I was pretty casual with my usage and my iPhone is an SE (original - small one).
But - they are spendy for what they are (I think). I'm just sort of waiting and seeing where my whims take me on this for now. It's never a bad thing to have a tech reset, at least for me, so it's all good.
I also wouldn’t buy one. 500 for 3 year old tech with known issues. I’d sooner go to 800 in that case, as that also gets a storage upgrade to 128GB.
Brand new 2017 Pros in 2020 baffle me. Weren’t they discontinued when the Air 3 came out?
Brand new 2017 Pros in 2020 baffle me. Weren’t they discontinued when the Air 3 came out?
^----- It's a Kroger-supplied combo store with a camera/TV/computer department. I suspect they've had a stockpile of 10.5 Wifi-only models as a higher end offering and they got caught with not discounting them enough over time to deplete the stockpile prior to the 11 inch models and newer 10.2 and 10.5 (air) models being released.