I find it funny that some ancillary notification component is drawing the ire of so many fan boys. As if a 1/2 cm cut out will completely ruin the look of a black slab. While I can understand your average soccer mom wont need it - but for people using their phones for business - why wouldnt you want it?
It always does...year after year. This same, mirrored thread happened last year with nearly identical responses.
As far as necessity goes...i'll never personally have a need for it on that level, i never did with any of the BB phones ive owned over the last decade. Now that doesn't mean my needs mirror anyone else, and i certainly wouldn't mind a nice, concealed LED notification light for those who would find use for it (even if i have none)...my argument was never on that end of the stick, i was simply making an argument before about the necessity of such a feature on a phone that stays within our visual cue so much more than phones did when the LED notification became such a big hit (primarily with BB devices).
We look at our phones more, they are more solidly intertwined into our daily routines than they were before, and that is the main reason i personally don't see the need for one. Many people also fear the idea of a BB like plastic, protruding LED on the front panel of the iPhone, and from a cosmetic stand point, if that were the route Apple decided to take, i can totally understand that argument...but given the ability to mount pretty much everything under the glass panels, i highly doubt that would ever be the case (thus making that argument a big moot).