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As far as I'm aware all manufactures of camera phones are required to produce a noise when taking a snap

• jsmcgd 18y ago
  Presumably 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 ago
    my possibly wrong understanding isn't that this is law, but that consumers boycott phones without this "feature"
    • mechanical_fish 18y ago
      And 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.