“Yesterday we emphasized the lack of an ambient light sensor in the 5th generation iPod touch after initially highlighting the omission in our iPod touch 5th gen review,” Jeff Benjamin reports for iDownload Blog.
“Now a reader claims to have emailed Apple’s SVP of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, and received a response explaining the drop of the sensor,” Benjamin reports. “The reason for the omission? It’s just too thin.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Brawndo Drinker” and “Carl H.” for the heads up.]
Form over function as usual. Although, with as well as any of their light sensing has worked Macs through iPods) I don’t think I’d miss it much.
Ambient light sensor will return to iPod touch next year.
Good enough reason for me. Same with the purple whatever from the camera on i5. I can definetly live with a little flare on rare ocasions than get anything other than the perfection of the i5 form factor
On this website many professional photographers wrote to say that many expensive non-phone camera lenses produce the same purple haze. It just is what it is.
Yeah and since Apple has already used the “Ken Burns” effect in video why not proudly use the “Jimi Hendrix” effect in photos as well? 🙂
Won’t miss it. I didn’t care for auto dimming anyway.
Big deal!
Display mate talked about how useless he ambient light sensor is a couple of years ago: “Automatic Brightness on existing smartphones is close to functionally useless…”
http://www.displaymate.com/AutoBrightness_Controls_2.htm
Uh, oh. This would never have happened if Steve Jobs were alive. This points to the general decline of Apple and Tim Cook’s lack of concern over product specs. Time for another Apple stock downgrade. I’m sure millions of iPod Touch users are up in arms for spending $299 and getting less functionality than last year’s model Touch.
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And you know this how …, seance ?
Did you not see the closing sarcasm tag at the end of his post??? Even without the tag, it was kind of obvious from the tone of the message that he was joking.
+1
What does “+1” mean?
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It means, “I agree,” but it’s mostly a waste of space and way too nerdy.
I also hate that it makes me think of Google+, that hangout for nerds.
Maybe his inner ambient light sensor is set to “dim”. 😉
heh, good one.
Guess this disproves the old saying, “You can never be too rich or too thin.”
Enough with trying to be the thinnest. After a certain “thinness” it doesn’t matter anymore.
Give me an iPod or iPhone 2mm thick so it can hold a bugger battery.
If fact, if its too thin, it starts to become harder to hold.
maybe Tim would approve a bugger battery that’s harder to hold.
How do you fabricate a bugger battery? With a lightning bug?
@botvinnick
… that was wickedly clever!! luv it.
Did anyone really use it? I always turned it off. I’d rather have one set by time.
I think they should have made it thinker then.
I aimbient sensor… Wtf it’s 2012…
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