Significant light leakage, few light botches on sides/corners - defective?

My replacement shipped from Pennsylvania. To think of the money Apple sent to overnight me an empty box, then overnight it back to them, and then overnight me a replacement!! You'd think they would want to get it right.

Take a view at this article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110412/tc_nm/us_brazil_foxconn

Could Apple manufacture in the USA instead of building economies in other countries?

Wouldn't that be cool?

Best Regards

optimysticguy wrote:

Could Apple manufacture in the USA instead of building economies in other countries?

Would you be willing to pay at least 2x the price you do now for Apple products?

If not, you've answered your own question.

BTW, I just received my iPad 2 (64G / 3G AT&T Black) and it has absolutely no perceptible light leak or screen yellowing issues.

Whether that's because of a change in display suppliers, I couldn't say, but it just shipped out of China on the 24th.

Note that if your iPad is being replaced, the stock of service replacements is likely older than the new unit I just received, so if the issue was due to a supplier issue with the display, it could take months to work through the "old stock" of replacements.

Thanks for the heads up on the service replacement stock. Congrats! on receiving your Ipad 2!

Always amazes me when people whine about manufacturing here & forget the reason it moved to begin with. *It would be more like triple the price if "made in the usa". Who's fault? - Ours.

My 3rd iPad has a fine display... and all it took was a 3 hr wait online for nothing. 3 weeks delivery. 3 support calls and 3 trips (and waits) to the genius bar... the guy wouldn't even give me a smart cover for my trouble. Not the Apple I use to know. ;(

Ok, just took back my 5th iPad to the Regent Street store for a replacement, brought it back to the office and turned it on in a dark room and guess what?

No light blotches or dead pixles! Finally an iPad that works as advertised!

Hallelujah!

Just got the call that my (third) iPad 2 replacement is in the Apple store...going to pick it up later today...will advise once I pick it up...

@ chotty1 -- "Who's [sic] fault? - Ours."

Actually, you'll find that it's not ours but the CEOs and Board Management and other upper ranks at US companies who have continued to drive down wages for American workers (while upping their own) such that we can't afford to buy products made in our own country. Consider than forty or fifty years ago, one working head of household could support a family entitely on his own -- when these days it takes two plus a buttload of credit to achieve the same result. In 1970 the rate of CEO pay to the average worker was 25:1. Now it's upwards of 500:1.

Blame ourselves? Only if we're in the one percent of Americans who have captured 75% of the nation's economic growth.

Source: parts 1 and 2 of this article at http://www.alternet.org/economy/145667/

Let me guess. Big labor bears no blame, right? They played no part in destroying Detroit & making GARBAGE sedans no one wants @ sickeningly high pay while immune from being fired?

So, yes. Blame ourselves for allowing corporations to ship jobs overseas -AND- blame big labor for forcing their hand.

Plenty of other sites for class warfare. Take it there, please.

It would be nice to actually have another person confirm via Apple Care or Apple Support what the other rep in this message said... that it was a "confirmed problem" and that it has "been fixed at the factory" level...

This way at least we know for sure it wasn't just someone saying something that wasn't fully passed on. We all have gotten 15 different stories before.

Also, I never saw any response that if you order online that you can take it into the Apple store and get one of their retail box replacements if what you received online was bad. Is this possible?

Call and ask.

Apple will take care of any of their products at the Apple store that are under the manufacturers warranty no matter where purchased.

The iPhone has restrictions on warranty repairs. iPhones can only be repaired in the country that the phone was purchase. Also, if an Apple product is not sold in a preticular country that device is not covered under warranty in that country. Even if that country has Apple stores.

David - thanks for the clarification regarding Non US, international stores and products.

I'll take it elsewhere, but I want to point out that I didn't start this.