Apple now has possession of my iPad 3 that was experiencing the "Incorrect Password" issue, slow wifi speed and signal when I could get it to connect on my home router, or, would work great with our system at work, after updating to IOS 8. Quite a broad spectrum of info for them to analyze. They recorded all my router info, settings, etc. as we did troubleshooting on my home PC via screen share for quite a while. I loaded the wifi logging profile on my iPad direct from Apple, and tried multiple wifi systems both with, and without success, sent them all the logs, as well as a detailed written log on what I was trying to do and where. Hopefully it will lead them to a root cause that will help us all.
As I said before, is this what I want to do with my products that I've paid for, is be their unofficial test subject? No, not really, and Apple knows that. However, if I have a key piece of equipment/information that can help break the case and help others in the process, I'm more than happy to help.
This all transpired from this forum. I DID NOT contact Apple, send them hate mail, am not an Apple employee "poser" or anything. I just posted on this forum what problems I was having and was looking for a possible solution to fix my once almost flawless iPad 3 on IOS 7. Apple initiated contact with me, was very professional, courteous, helpful, and spoke perfect English. (No harm meant to non-English speaking folks on here.) Of course the reps I spoke with wouldn't say their stuff is broke, it's Apples fault, or anything, and I didn't I ask. That's not the reps responsibility, nor are they themselves going to really know. They are a tool to gather information to pass on to the engineers for further review.
Now, I know my experience is not the normal for many on here, but it is proof that Apple is concerned for it's product, monitors this forum, and is taking steps to try and possibly remedy the situation. The more information of symptoms that they can gather on these forums I'm sure is looked at and taken into consideration, while all the complaining is in the way and bypassed. Several of Apple's beta testers have posted on here, and given heads up that 8.1.1 was out and being tested a while ago, was targeting specific issues, but was not the cure all for all devices wifi.
I've been impressed that a large, world wide corporation, contacted me, the little guy, when they have much larger, corporate customers out there to worry about. I own Windows and Android products as well, and highly doubt that any manufacturer of their products would have ever contacted me directly regarding tech support, on a three year old device that has been superseded several times.