I can also add my voice/vote to this...
All my windows notebooks had matt screens. So it was quite a disappointment that I could not get a MBP with one. Mine is early 2011 so not sure why the option was not available at the time.
It was that bad that I ended up with an ocular migraine and could not work at all. (I literally could only focus on one word on the entire screen everything else was blurred. So had to move my head around to read an entire line...) My setup was MBP main screen with Samsung (matt) external screen running Win7 VM for development. Initially I believed that it was that it was the different screen font philosophies of Apple and Windows that led to my issue, but when it was all on the same screen type at a different customer, the issue did not return.
This year I bought an iPad Air for which I could not even source an anti-glare screen protector locally. I'm also back at the orginal customer and running an external monitor. Now for the last couple of weeks my eyes have been giving me issues again which makes them super sensitive to any glare. So working on the external matt monitor or my iPhone with a matt screen protector is fine, but as soon as I switch to my iPad or the MBP I can feel that my eyes don't like it. I've tried avoiding all forms of screens but any glare in normal day to day life is an issue.
My next step is to try and source a anti-glare for both my MBP and my iPad and see if that helps.
I need more screen real estate so would love for them to get this sorted or at least have an option to have a decent anti-glare screen protector ship with the MBP as an option at the time of purchase.
Somebody mention that we are in the minority, but that is exactly the problem. For us it is a real issue (more like nightmare) which people who do not suffer as a result of it will never understand.
Hopefully oculus rift will sort this out for us, with infinite desktop real-estate and zooming (in and out) and simulated glare for the retina lovers ;-)
Regards
Paul
