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[–] 52 points 9 months ago (7 children)

What would be the benefit in a camera facing away from the user?

It would be unused in 99% of use cases and the other 1% a external camera is more functional.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    walking around with the laptop showing people stuff, would be EXTREMELY useful to me

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You seem to be in the minority there, maybe an external clip-on webcam is a better solution? I doubt a back-facing webcam would be used very much because most people use laptops like a take-home work station, and they use phones to show things to people (I'm sure there's a good reason you're not doing that, it's just what most people do)

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Tablets (including iPads) have rear-facing cameras.

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