Why are so many home buttons not working like mine? See web comments

Why are so many home buttons on ipad 2 reported as faulty on the web? Mine is being replaced because of this requiring tedious journeys to Apple Bristol

Webchats, forums, and news reporters basically talk about what doesn't work, not what does. This site is for people who are having trouble so you don't see many people logging in saying: "I have a perfect iPad!" Consumer non-News would be: "Im John Materese and today no-one returned an iPad to the local Apple Store."
Sorry you had a bad experience but with millions and millions made and sold, some one is bound to get a defective device. To put it another way, if Apple's defective rate were an industry unheard of 1%, with 15 million iPads sold, that would be 150,000 iPads that had a defect. 1% is a very small number, 150,000 isn't

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