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Re:Apple's Supply Chain Secret by furyg3 on Friday November 04, 2011 @05:56AM (#3195498)
I din't pull out a microscope, but I did wonder why they didn't implement this for all the lights (battery-level indicators on the side, charging indicators on the power supply connector).
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Re:Apple's Supply Chain Secret by tomelgin on Friday November 04, 2011 @03:14PM (#3197352)
The battery lights display useful information by being visibly off. When you see 7 dots light up, you need to be able to see the 8th dark hole to know it's at 7/8 charge and not 7/7 or 7/10. Similarly for the charging indicator: when it's not charging, you want that to be obvious.

Arguably, knowing that the laptop camera (or the wireless keyboard bluetooth pairing) is not active is not as useful information.

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