Former Apple exec returns his iPad Pro because of noticeable bend

Author: Amin Ashaari / Source: SoyaCincau.com

Michael Gartenberg, a former Apple executive,

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Returned my iPad this morning. Perhaps it was within Apple tolerances but Apple tolerances shouldn’t allow for a clear noticeble bend. Much as monitors with noticeble dead pixels aren’t acceptable either.

— Michael Gartenberg (@Gartenberg)

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Recently, several customers who bought the 2018 iPad Pro noticed that their iPads had a slight curve right out of the box. In a comment to The Verge, Apple said that the bend is not a cause for concern.

Instead, Apple say, the slight bend is a side effect of the iPad Pro’s manufacturing process (apparently during the cooling down process of the metal and plastic components). According to Apple, the bend is not expected to worsen over time or affect the iPad’s performance in any way.

Essentially, Apple doesn’t consider the slight curve present in some iPad Pros a defect.

Some customers have sent emails to Apple for further clarification on the matter. One such customer received a reply from Dan Riccio, Apple’s VP of hardware engineering. Ricco explained that the iPad Pro’s unibody design “meets or exceeds Apple’s high-quality standards and precision manufacturing”.

Ricco goes on to explain that the current specification for the flatness of the iPad Pro is up to 400 microns which he claims is less than half a millimetre (or the width of fewer than four sheets of paper)….

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