{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Cerulean Spark (ceruleanspark)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Apr-16 08:38:27 UTC","author_name":"Cerulean Spark (ceruleanspark)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/ceruleanspark","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/4125175","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/4320\" class=\"url\" title=\"RDN's Lucifer\"><span class=\"fn nickname mention\">nerthos<\/span><\/a><\/span> In this case I think it's just lazy manufacturers. They added it without really thinking it through, and have never re-evaluated their design. Plenty of other devices get it right. My firefox phone has a silent camera, my Palm pre 2 had a silent camera, and my old windows phones had a silent camera. Even the iPhone, the king of &quot;designing for the lowest common denominator&quot; has a silent camera."}