There's very little clearance in that direction, and the clearance which there is is necessary for the screen / lens not to touch the keyboard / case and get scratched.
So if you have a bump on the inner side, you also need to have a notch in the topcase.
And unless you move the webcam something weird (an edge or below the screen), you need to have that notch through or below right below trackpad, which is less than optimally comfortable before you even consider that the accumulation of crap in that notch can then damage the camera lens.
Would it be so weird? I mean: top corner/edge is less of a problem than bottom (nostril+big hands)
Assymertic? let's go nuts: two webcams, one on each side... suddenly, no notch, double the amount of light, stereoscopic vision. Combine that with some software processing and probably two very cheap sensors could produce decent results without bumping the price as a thin and tiny high quality sensor would.
I have an Apple studio display. That thing is pretty new, thick and has an A something chip running iOS inside.
The camera quality is shit. Just garbage.
I don’t understand how they manage to do it. I understand your comment about laptop screens and it makes sense however none of the third party external webcams and even a non space constrained Apple webcam performs ok.
If Apple released a notch in the bottom side of their macbooks for a camera bump to fit in, everyone would be calling them visionary geniuses and they would use it to jack up the price 200 dollars more.
And that’s pretty annoying, a computer lid bump would snag into everything.
> And screens could be thicker where needed.
My phone’s thrice the thickness of my laptop’s lid.
This would increase the laptop’s thickness by a lot, and mostly by voids.