IMac Glossy Screens and Calibration

I talked to an Apple store rep the other week and when I asked when Apple would ever get a matte screen for their iMacs, she replied why did I want one? I replied that I do photographic work and the glossy screens were difficult to work with. "What? I have a friend and they love the gloss screens" They saw no need for the matte screens. I have to occasionally use my wife's Dell laptop 17" with a gloss screen and it drives me nuts.
Found some support.
From Martin Evening's Photoshop CS5 book (pg 89) - "Meanwhile Apple's passion for glossy displays means that their newer displays are actually worse than the old ones. I have found it impossible to calibrate the new iMac displays and makes them unusable for Photoshop image editing. The only viable solution has been to run a secondary display off the iMac I take on location, which kind of defeats the reason for having an iMac in the first place!"
Has anybody heard of any hope of Apple bringing back the matte screen? (also the 24" iMac which was the perfect size.)

There are screen films that you can apply, but lots of folks here have reported mixed results.
For other articles of interest, see the following:
MacWorld ➤ [Make your glossy iMac screen matte|http://www.macworld.com/article/139942/2009/04/mwvodcast103.html]
Apple Discussions ➤ [Glossy Displays|http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&client=pub-6263300333013957&cof=FOR ID:1%3BGL:1%3BLBGC:336699%3BLC:%230000ff%3BVLC:%23663399%3BGFNT:%230000ff%3BGIMP :%230000ff%3BDIV:%23336699%3B&oe=ISO-8859-1&ei=JyBKTNb-MoeosQO4zcyoCw&q=applediscussions+glossydisplay&start=0&sa=N]
Apple ➤ [Questions & Answers|http://store.apple.com/us/question/answers/product/MB382LL/A?pqid=QA9TC 2CYY9DXHPDK7KKJUFHHJDKTHFYK2]

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