Apple elected to construct the handset on its new iPod touch without an ambient light sensor, as had been present in previous generations of the model.
While it seems like a small modification, several users are upset that Apple would remove such a cheap, useful component from the device. Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller sent a response to one user, explaining the reasoning behind the missing sensor.
According to Schiller, the current-gen iPod touch lacks an ambient light sensor because the model is simply too thin to accommodate one. Granted, the iPod touch is a fantastically thin 6.1 millimeters, but there was still plenty of room for a main camera, a front-facer and a flash. Surely there must have been somewhere to squeeze-in a photodiode. After all, they're not exactly bulky components. Even if it came down to making the iPod touch 6.2 millimeters thick, instead, would users even care?
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