… It removes one of the most valuable features of OS X for laptop owners:
OS x lion WILL NOT recharge a plugged-in iPhone when the lid is closed (after 10 seconds of pretending to charge – just long enough to fool you – Apple cuts the power)
At conferences, on sales trips, on plane trips … I have relied on this feature many many times to recharge a phone off the laptop battery.
Now?
Denied.
No user setting for it (that I can find so far) just … Removed :(