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Their absence encourages you to check your phone more often, which means you'll unlock it and look at some content more often, which means as revenue for someone.
You just wrinkled my brain right now.
Being honest I think the opposite of this is more likely true. Seeing a flashing indicator for all the notifications my phone “thinks” are important is going to make me more likely to constantly check my phone. Barring that I check when I want to. And with the new passive display modes I can glance and decide whether to even unlock or not.
This is the real answer for OP. Those lights were replaced. Maybe OP (and maybe me as well, I haven't really thought about it) would prefer to still have the notification LED, but to the hardware manufacturers they replaced those with something "cooler".
It’s a nice conspiracy theory. But unlikely. Who gets the additional review?
For some random hardware producer I don't see how that would be favourable.
Genuinely wouldn't be surprised if this was the truth. The tactics these companies employ are both putridly-covert, yet brilliantly executed - especially so if it also saves a few cents.
In Apple's case it's a subtle encouragement to buy their watch.
I don’t believe the iPhone ever had an LED notification light. The iPhone existed well before the watch did, as well.
I shouldn't have doubted Apple's campaign for minimalism > functionality
It never did, indeed. However, there's an accessibility function to use the flashlight like an old school LED.
I hate how correct you are about this.