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Re:Apple Explains Mysterious iPhone 11 Location Requests by jlarocco on Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:25PM (#21717334)
> The Location Services icon really does flash when anything uses Location Services, apparently.

That's not necessarily true, though.

It's just as likely the developer who implemented the feature forgot to set the "flashIcon = false" parameter in some low level API and nobody noticed. Without access to the source code we're just taking Apple's word for it.

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Re:Apple Explains Mysterious iPhone 11 Location Requests by 8bitsrule on Thursday December 05, 2019 @08:28PM (#21718526)
"Nature abhors a vacuum". Apple created that vacuum. Perhaps they should err in favor of transparency for the people who are paying their bills ... but it's consistent with having chosen the dark path for the Macintosh, long ago.
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