{"id":34431,"date":"2021-12-14T16:20:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T21:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34431"},"modified":"2021-12-14T16:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T21:20:55","slug":"ipad-needs-a-better-oleophobic-coating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/14\/ipad-needs-a-better-oleophobic-coating\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad Needs a Better Oleophobic Coating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phonearena.com\/news\/the-ipad-screen-issue-nobody-talks-about_id137049\">Rado Minkov<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/meekgeek\/status\/1469914067544379394\">Meek Geek<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.phonearena.com\/news\/the-ipad-screen-issue-nobody-talks-about_id137049\"><p>But a day or two after using it, a ray of sunshine hits the iPad&rsquo;s display and you realize a horrifying fact about it &#x2013; under light it looks disgusting, smudged up &#x2013; it&rsquo;s somehow collected all the fingerprints in the world&#8230; Ew!<\/p><p>Nobody told you that this was a thing that would happen, even if you&rsquo;ve read all the reviews and prepared carefully for your iPad purchase, the tragic state of your iPad&rsquo;s display wasn&rsquo;t something you expected at all. You knew fingerprints were a thing, but not like this!<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>For some reason the majority of Apple users don&rsquo;t seem to be bothered by the fact that Apple claims the iPad Pro has &ldquo;fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating&rdquo;, yet its display collects seemingly way more fingerprints and smudges than the iPhone, which too has &ldquo;fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating&rdquo; listed under its display specs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I upgraded from an iPad mini 2, which didn&rsquo;t have Apple Pencil support, to an iPad Air (4th generation). In nearly every respect it&rsquo;s better, but the fingerprints on the display are a huge regression. It reminds me of the original iPhone display when there was no oleophobic coating. I would gladly forego Apple Pencil support to get a better coating.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rado Minkov (via Meek Geek): But a day or two after using it, a ray of sunshine hits the iPad&rsquo;s display and you realize a horrifying fact about it &#x2013; under light it looks disgusting, smudged up &#x2013; it&rsquo;s somehow collected all the fingerprints in the world&#8230; Ew!Nobody told you that this was a thing [&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":"2021-12-14T21:20:58Z","apple_news_api_id":"24f9d4a2-97fe-4d6c-a532-63cafd31aaca","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-12-14T21:20:58Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AJPnUopf-TWylMmPK_TGqyg","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":[1271,838,145,709],"class_list":["post-34431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-pencil","tag-display","tag-ipad","tag-ipad-air"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34431","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=34431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34432,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34431\/revisions\/34432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}