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Re:Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Sili... by lelandfe on Friday February 20, 2026 @08:31AM (#47087821)
In 2022 "a little birdy pointed out an accelerometer" to iFixit on their teardown of an M2 MBA: https://www.ifixit.com/News/62674/m2-macbook-air-teardown-ap...

They could not figure out what it was for.

Ars Technica commenters at the time believed it was to record drops so Apple repair teams could rebuff requests :)

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