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Presumably people who like taking upskirt shots won't use the new iPhone and less nefarious iPhone users will all have to suffer the obnoxious shutter sound. Th
by jsmcgd 18y ago
Presumably people who like taking upskirt shots won't use the new iPhone and less nefarious iPhone users will all have to suffer the obnoxious shutter sound. This is nothing more than tokenism and hence I won't be dispensing any brownie points.
- sant0sk1 18y agoIf upskirts are so endemic to Japan that the manufacturers are taking proactive measures with iPhones, its safe to assume they will be doing likewise with other camera phones as well.
- danw 18y agoAs far as I'm aware all manufactures of camera phones are required to produce a noise when taking a snap
- jsmcgd 18y agoPresumably there are other digital cameras that do not make a sound when taking a picture and these are the ones that are used. My gripe isn't with Apple but the legislation which I imagine hasn't really amounted to much.
- aardvarkious 18y agomy possibly wrong understanding isn't that this is law, but that consumers boycott phones without this "feature"
- mechanical_fish 18y agoAnd that makes perfect sense. In an environment where the typical phone makes a noise, carrying a phone that takes photos silently is like wearing a sign around your neck that says "pervert". The bad news for birdwatchers everywhere is that this trick doesn't work with binoculars.
- gommm 18y agoA friend who worked at a japanese phone manufacturer told me that they have to have this feature to be able to market it.... In the two years I have been there I never saw a phone that didn't make a shutter sound (and god how obnoscious my phone's shutter sound was)...
- petercooper 18y agoWhat about small digital cameras, like pencams?