Wow, this is bad. If this is happening not only to iPad 2's but also to other brands we have a major problem. The world is at stake! If you guys think about it, it's happening with ALL products, not just electronics but also vehicles and houses? The manufacturers are using cheap labor and taking shortcuts to save cost.... and yet INCREASE the selling price for the consumer. True true... the government is keep jacking up / creating more taxes so it's gonna get worse. Cars for example, the best built cars are from Honda and Toyota back in mid 80's to early 90's!!! Build quality and QC has gone down ever since, pretty much for all car makers (Lexus is less affected due to high level of standards in build quality). I bought a brand new house exactly one year ago and it's built like crap!!!
Same goes for the flat panel TV screens. I think the plasma and LCD screen made back in early 2000's were made like golden, unbreakable and made with high precision, AND they were not made in China.... Mine was made in JAPAN and it's still running like a tank. It's also made perfect, no faults of any kind.
Luckily, VERY luckily, I have very minor light leaks (2 spots) on my iPad 2 and are invisible in dimmed environment with black screen. The only way to see some of them is to jack up the brightness up and take it in to my bathroom with door closed (has no window). So I say, I got the golden one. But if I knew such build quality problem exists on these devices I wouldn't have bought the iPad 2... I would just keep using my professional grade plasma screen with my PC. It has no light bleed and the beauty with these plasma technology is that, unlike LCDs, the pixels do not go bad over time! It's 6 years old and has way better picture quality too...
It is very unlikely I will buy iPad 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 ...... unless I get the 1990's build quality back, which I doubt will ever happen. You can't go back in time unless you got a time machine. Back then the home stereo systems were built very well too. I had one, was expensive, but loved the build quality.
The biggest question is, who is to be blamed for all this?
You got it... it's the GOVERNMENT!!!!! you jack up taxes and raise environmental regulations and all that **** you are bound to go south. Blame the government!!! or you, the people who voted for wrong leaders. It's all you guys fault. You are now paying for it.
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