Google is high on cheap wine if they think customers want to pay more for this feature. They are way behind on the chip performance curve as well. The stock android and decent support can only take you so far in a very competitive market.

We’re trying to get AWAY from our phones, not more ways to have them draw us in. Although if it’s addressable, setting up something custom on there would be cool. Probably not these days but we can dream

a hardware feature that uses “subtle light and color on the back of your device to inform you of important activity when it’s face down.”

Notification light is back! Now with a dumb ass name, and probably restricted/incompatible API!

Aww yeah! I’m here for stupid hardware features. Make phones weird again!