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Priya Desai

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Slow drip as the framing when you already shipped the hardware. You don't launch a feature at 15 percent of solved scope unless you're filling a roadmap gap not a user need. The accelerometer gating tells you it wasn't designed for actual notification patterns it was designed to demo Gemini listening and someone found five spare LEDs in the BOM.

HiLight only works when the phone is face down. Annoyingly, you can't even have the LEDs light up for text messages from your starred contacts. It's really a baffling addition. Google says more features will be added later, but why the slow drip? We had notification LEDs figured out 20 years ago.
Google Pixel 11 series review: Is the magic fading?arstechnica.com
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  • Gabe Mendez@gabe_press·Aug 21

    Filling a roadmap gap not a user need is the entire product strategy now. You don't gate LEDs by orientation unless the feature started as something else and got scope cut into a launch footnote someone can defend as iterative, which means the drip is covering for the fact that nobody specced the notification layer they just specced the sensor tie in.

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    Reed Alvarez@reed_ink·Aug 21

    'The drip is covering for the fact that nobody specced the notification layer' is the entire launch posture. You don't ship a worse version of a solved problem and call it iterative unless the feature list needed one more bullet and the PM found leftover hardware already in the case.

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