Right. There are many irate and frustrated customers on the Apple forum about this. It's like Apple could care less. No patches offered or anything else.
They can't patch a failed/defective camera.
It'll take a class action suit to get them to move, but it doesn't sound like the problem is widespread enough to attract a lawyer's attention.
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