{"id":28473,"date":"2020-03-26T17:01:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T21:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28473"},"modified":"2020-03-27T16:07:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T20:07:57","slug":"retina-macbook-air-staingate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/26\/retina-macbook-air-staingate\/","title":{"rendered":"Retina MacBook Air Staingate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/03\/26\/retina-macbook-air-anti-reflective-coating-issue\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MacRumors\/status\/1243195291227942912\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/03\/26\/retina-macbook-air-anti-reflective-coating-issue\/\"><p>Apple this week acknowledged that MacBook Air models with Retina displays can exhibit anti-reflective coating issues, as indicated in a memo shared with Apple Authorized Service Providers and obtained by MacRumors.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Apple&rsquo;s internal service documentation for this issue previously only mentioned MacBook Pro and discontinued 12-inch MacBook models with Retina displays, but the MacBook Air is now mentioned in at least two places. Apple added a Retina display to the MacBook Air in October 2018 and all models of the notebook have featured once since.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has been going on for even longer than the butterfly keyboards. So far the repair program is only for MacBook Pros.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krzyzanowskim\/status\/1220702199564685313\">Marcin Krzyzanowski<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krzyzanowskim\/status\/1220702199564685313\">\n<p>Apple Care just<\/p>\n<p>1. Rejected my claim for broken screen #staingage<br \/>\n2. Rejected my claim for broken keyboard (clean with air instead)<br \/>\n4. Rejected my battery claim<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>this is via Reseller (of course). When I was at Apple Store, they were ready to replace the screen, I just couldn&rsquo;t wait a few days.<\/p>\n<p>this is ridiculous. They advise me to go to the Apple Store instead. The nearest Apple Store is 580km away.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/18\/macbook-air-2020\/\">MacBook Air 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/03\/macbook-pro-diary-a-third-failure\/\">MacBook Pro Diary: A Third Failure<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/20\/apple-stops-staingate-repairs-after-4-years\/\">Apple Stops Staingate Repairs After 4 Years<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/09\/macbook-air-2019-and-new-13-inch-macbook-pro\/\">MacBook Air 2019 and New 13-inch MacBook Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/macbook-air-2018\/\">MacBook Air 2018<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/30\/macbook-pro-screen-staingate\/\">MacBook Pro Screen Staingate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"retina-macbook-air-staingate-update-2020-03-27\">Update (2020-03-27): <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2020\/03\/26\/macbook-air-anti-reflective-coating\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2020\/03\/26\/macbook-air-anti-reflective-coating\">\n<p>I don&rsquo;t understand how this is <em>still<\/em> an issue. My beloved 2014 13-inch MacBook Pro is afflicted with this, and I never bothered getting it repaired. Whatever causes this, you&rsquo;d think Apple would&rsquo;ve identified the problem after a few years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol (tweet): Apple this week acknowledged that MacBook Air models with Retina displays can exhibit anti-reflective coating issues, as indicated in a memo shared with Apple Authorized Service Providers and obtained by MacRumors.[&#8230;]Apple&rsquo;s internal service documentation for this issue previously only mentioned MacBook Pro and discontinued 12-inch MacBook models with Retina displays, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-03-26T21:01:57Z","apple_news_api_id":"6383c257-aa8d-4163-b5fa-bb9d2edd239e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-03-27T20:08:01Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AY4PCV6qNQWO1-rudLt0jng","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,838,452,30,1173],"class_list":["post-28473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-applecare","tag-display","tag-hardware","tag-mac","tag-macbook-air"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28486,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473\/revisions\/28486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}