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I feel this is a feature added by request from someone that misses the point of (manual) shutters, likely from the same group of people who would request allowi
by zinekeller 6y ago
I feel this is a feature added by request from someone that misses the point of (manual) shutters, likely from the same group of people who would request allowing to disable the camera's LED indicator. (And Dell engineers cannot deny the request because the management say so.)
- hosh 6y agoIt would have been a great feature if this were an integrated manual shutter.
- zinekeller 6y agoI think you have missed the hidden point of my comment (well, it is sarcasm though so apologies to that).
- hosh 6y agoI get that (1) there are UX design features that it was missed, and (2) there are people who want to be able to spy on people through the webcam without any indication that they are being spied upon and (3) try to sell it as a feature, (4) spying could be for the purpose of remote monitoring employees during these times of pandemic-forced remote working (5) or something more nafarious with state-level actors. Was there something I missed?
- zinekeller 6y agoYes, that my statement tells about some "boss" (CEO or VP of some company) who doesn't want to be instructed by IT to slide the "stupid" (in their own opinion) cover and wants it to be automated, in the same way that they complain about the "stupid" (again in their own opinion) LED indicator light and wants it to turn off. It's not totally about spying (surpringly some don't have that concern at all) and more about that some people don't see the point about the cover the same way that they don't also see the point about the LED indicator and wants to have a "fix" (even though the fix is disingenuous to those who understands the reasoning behind it). Of course, Dell will lose their business with that company with that boss because the boss wants to have that fancy shutter and will switch if this condition was not met. I don't want to explain my sarcasm but I understand that some people may not get it and I apologise again for the inherent non-clarity of my first statement.
- hosh 6y agoI thought I had that covered in my point (1).
- curiousllama 6y agoI bet you the engineer who designed this (1) knows it's silly and (2) reads HN. I wonder if we'll get the story!
- marapuru 6y agoI would rate it more likely that this idea was the result of a brainstorm about ideas on how to monetize on (the feeling of) privacy. A bit similar to the whole connected fridge idea. A: "We need features to distinguish ourselves from our competition" B: "Touch screens are definitely a thing these days. And I can use my laptop to order groceries" And suddenly every fridge from the future had a touch screen without considering the core thing the fridge does. Freezing things.