[thih9]

> If your work environment requires you to cover the camera on your Mac notebook, follow these guidelines to avoid damaging the display:

> Make sure the camera cover is not thicker than an average piece of printer paper (0.1mm).

> Avoid using a camera cover that leaves adhesive residue.

> If you install a camera cover that is thicker than 0.1mm, remove the camera cover before closing your computer.

To me this sounds reasonable.

[diffeomorphism]

The unreasonable part is that this does not seem to be necessary on literally any other laptop.

People just kept doing what they have been doing for years with their old laptops, but now their very expensive new laptop broke -> unreasonable.

[solarkraft]

Old plastic laptops were bendy, creaky and had very high tolerances, but people didn't quite like the downsides of that.

So Apple makes a metal machine with very low tolerances that feels super solid.

[diffeomorphism]

> feels super solid.

But breaks, so yeah "feels" is the keyword here.

[NavinF]

Yeah that just seems like common sense. Dunno why people use those hard plastic covers that prevent the lid from closing properly and put all the pressure on one part of the LCD.

[joezydeco]

Because people don't trust the activity LED.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/perv-...

Has Apple fixed the issue? Most likely. But do you trust Apple completely? Would a $0.50 piece of plastic solve that trust issue?

[NavinF]

Sure but you can just use a 0.1mm sticker. 4 thou is a lot for a camera cover unless it's one of those plastic ones with the sliding window

[joezydeco]

I'm guessing the sliding thing is what most people use. People do use their cameras, but want to be sure it's off when it's off.