Does Apple’s iPad Pro fail the cracked screen test?
by Miles Brignall from Technology | The Guardian on (#1Y57V)
The super-slim tablet is said by some to crack too easily. And when the tech giant charges 566 for a repair, is it being unfair?
Apple's swishest iPad yet - the ultra-slim Pro - is thinner, lighter and has an "amazing screen", according to reviews. But some buyers are finding that the screens crack too easily and are flabbergasted when Apple demands 556 to repair it.
One customer, Londoner Jonathan Hassid, paid 1,086 for his 12.9 inch iPad Pro, plus 150 for Apple's own screen protector. But just three months later the iPad developed a crack on its screen, even though, Hassid says, it had never been bashed or dropped. What stunned him was the reaction from Apple.
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