My Retina Display has stain damage, HELP!!!

I'm glad Apple finally capitulated on this issue. Congrats to everyone who signed the petition or complained. Don't forget how long it took them to act, though, and how nasty their employees were over a legitimate problem. They've already lost a future buyer in me. Who knows how much trouble I'd have to deal with if something else went wrong? No thanks.

Apple will replace your screen with new one. It happned to me nd they replcaed with new screen!

That's absolutely correct. I was going to make the same point (after having thanked Apple) but thought I would let things settle. This is a recent problem for me, but the ones who suffered early problems, staingate.org, and those who endured Apple's snide responses are the ones who deserve thanks.

NO SCREEN REPLACEMENT FOR ME (and many others I assume).

Most effected screens have been built into the early Retina Macbooks of mid 2012 production. Like mine, bought in July 2012. I miss the deadline by about 3 month, the time it took Apple to recognize and accept the issue.

I'm so **** annoyed about this time limit. If I wouldn't be an iOS developer, it would have been the last Apple hardware bought.

I know "Apple is not here", I still voice my utter disbelieve about this stupid and short sited decision and to make already disappoint Apple customers quite literally fume.

Apple does not offer a lifetime warranty for anything. It's unfortunate that you did not take care of the problem earlier. What you should have done is a fixed price depot repair for $300, and then request reimbursement.

Thats correct , depends on when you bought MB Pro, my MB pro is from late 2013 and they fixed since i have Apple care protection.

Carl, I'm not living in a different universe. I know that there is no live time warranty.

However, if you would have followed this discussion from day one (like I did), you would have noticed that most effected users weren't thinking of this being an epidemic problem caused by a manufacturing fault. I (and many others here) realised that it wasn't something they caused (due to wrong cleaning methods) by stumbling across this posting. When I came across this posting even the 2 year guarantee period granted in the EU was past tense, let alone the one year Apple warranty. So I did not bother going to Apple particular after assuming that Apple is unlikely going to do anything about it.

Now that it does, yes, I believe I can voice my anger that Apple does not do the right thing and replaces ALL effected Retina screens.

I'm from Brazil and bought my MacBook Pro in 2013 in the United States . I wonder if I will be entitled to repair my computer as well as my Retina screen is presenting the same problem mentioned here . grateful

... and let's not forget all those schoolmasters who, unsolicited, wasted a good amount of their lifetime here, just to deny the evidence that there was a problem at all with somebody else's computers – because whenever Apple did say there was no problem, that had to be the truth!

Ah, all those days wasted to brainwash other people, only to see Apple turn their back on you, schoolmasters...

Real Talk, most expecially that "Pete" guy...

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agree 100%

... also one cannot fail to observe that in order to make this replacement program possible, people had to organize petitions and websites externally, because of the efforts of "the Host" to make that impossible on their own forums, only to then see "the Host" implicitly recognizing the legitimacy of these bottom-up actions – recognition happening in the moment the replacement program was issued.

It's like they are saying:

'of course we will listen to you, if we will be able to hear your voice;but please, don't be offended if when you come to visit us we turn up the volume to 150db, you know we *love* music, and this after all is our house; we are sure your classmate Pete has told you our playlists are amazing; anyway, we hope you like U2?'

LOL. Perfect way to describe the "Host is not here" attitude.

LOL!!!! Nice one mate..... 😁😁😁... Very well said and presented.... Wink Wink.

I have the exact same problem. here in Sao Paulo

It started a few months ago out of nowhere and now gets worse and worse.

I am not going to accept this. This is the poorest experience Apple ever gave me.