redbeard
Well-known member
What's the point of a LED notification if you can't access your phone? If you can access your phone just check it more if it's that important to you.
I'm talking about having it in front of you on a desk or wherever you may be working or whatever you are doing. You mentioned an led light making you a slave to your phone, well that makes no sense, as not having one is what makes people slaves to their phones. Right now I have to keep grabbing my phone every few minutes and hitting the home button to see if I missed anything, I'm a slave.
So as it stands, people have to keep picking up their phones, and manually checking to see if they missed anything which is horribly unproductive, and is a waste of battery life.
With a notification light it makes things real simple, and it's really odd that a minority just don't get it. You look up at your phone... no light... keep on working... you look up at your phone... and you see the notification light lit up so you actually know you missed something and you aren't checking your phone in vain. Notification problem solved. End of discussion. For the people that don't want to ever see the iPhone change for the better, they can choose to turn the feature off, so why on Earth would anybody be against it?? I heard the same exact arguments about the front facing camera last year, some didn't want it, they said it would make the phone look tacky, they said Apple would never add one as it was "un-Apple-like", and other unreasonable complaints. Yet now nobody even thinks about it, it's now part of the iPhone and all iOS devices.
Personally I find it annoying, specially when I have my phone in my room at night, one it's dark and the flashing light is annoying, two I don't want to be a slave to my phone.
The iPhone doesn't have a flashing light, and if it did you could turn it off, and uh, are you sleeping with your phone on the pillow next to you or something? My phone could be playing Quake while I'm asleep and I wouldn't have a clue.
I guess a few of you don't care about not knowing if you get an important call or text message, but for many people it's pretty important. And not having this feature is like not having turn signals on a car because a few people think it makes their cars look like a circus or ruins the aesthetics of their car.. You're a slave to your iPhone since you have to check it a thousand times a day since there's no visual clue that you have a notification of some sorts.
If it's that important to you they still sell Blackberry's, get them before they are gone.
Seriously? I hope Apple doesn't share your philosophy, they just might find themselves in BB's shoes in a few years. I shouldn't have to buy another phone because the iPhone doesn't have a simple, cheap feature that dumbphones had over 5 years ago.
if you don't want a notification light you don't have to use it, many people want it, so why should they keep a feature off the phone to please a small minority? Especially when these things are optional??? I guess you won't be upgrading to iOS 5 when it comes out in the Fall since it has the ability to use the camera flash as a notification light??? It's already in iOS, so what people want is a dedicated one in the iPhone 5 that sits on the front of the phone where we can see it, and a low power led as the camera flash is too bright, faces the wrong way, and can't be good for battery life.
So it's a win-win situation, the people who don't want it can keep if off, and those of us who do can turn it on, everybody's happy, this is bad how?