Is it a coincidence that the new #iPhone5S fingerprint will be called #TouchID and http://touch-id.com/ is a Payment solutions company called #XAFAX?
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Alleged iPhone 5S User Guide Photo Highlights Fingerprint Sensor As 'Touch ID'
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Why are you hash tagging?
cause he either stole it- or he has the ultimate WUPHF.
https://twitter.com/fscheps/statuses/377320814443773952
Yay, more data for the NSA
if you've gotten a US passport in the past 8 years, the NSA already has your fingerprint.
i'm a privacy nerd, but fingerprints by themselves means as much as a social security number: it's arbitrary until you use it for important matters... meaning, as long as you don't use iCloud, you have an "out".
This is it the apocalypse. WHOA-oh-oh! ♫ ♪ ...Double down my @$$.
Woahh you are right! 10hrs before the announcement we have a pic of something amazing... a manual.
I agree that apple has a wonderful way of taking things that have been done before and make it simple and easy to use. And also make it very popular as well.
I was just responding to the poster that apparently thinks that if another phone were to have it, somehow it is copying apple when in fact apple is copying Motorola with a fingerprint scanner (touch id)
I'm just curious if this is the only improvement... I hope it's not because this isn't really amazing or impressive... However when the keynote launches, I will be sold on it as always...
as always...
Ha ha... yes... and its not just made of silver, but some special alloy that Apple brought back from the mining days that helps condition the skin around your fingerprint to somehow read better. You know it does.
I think this is very dangerous thing.
Just cuddle up close..... I'll protect you from that SCARY fingerprint sensor!
*perplexed by people's bizarre phobias*
You don't know what you don't know. There might be a surprise due to the absence of a rumour. Remember the new Mac Pro and the way it looked? No-one saw that one coming.
For anyone complaining or worried about the "dangers" of the fingerprint sensor that will grab your fingerprint or data, you're dumb. If you want to worry about your data, then your iPhone has much more worthy stuff you need to worry about first.
Your iPhone has 2 cameras that you never know when they'll take a photo, 3 microphones that could be listening to you at any moment, web browsing apps that could grab all your web history and passwords and upload it to some server, chatting apps like What'sApp or Facebook Messenger or Snapchat that will take all your private conversations between you and your friends including all pictures, videos, and soundclips are all already uploaded to their cloud servers.
So trust me, a fingerprint scanner is the least of your worries.
Your iPhone has 2 cameras that you never know when they'll take a photo, 3 microphones that could be listening to you at any moment, web browsing apps that could grab all your web history and passwords and upload it to some server, chatting apps like What'sApp or Facebook Messenger or Snapchat that will take all your private conversations between you and your friends including all pictures, videos, and soundclips are all already uploaded to their cloud servers.
So trust me, a fingerprint scanner is the least of your worries.
LG done it years ago so Apple are way behind. LG should sue
Yep, except nobody cares about LG, In fact I would imagine nobody would care if LG disappeared into a black hole forever.
When someone mentions (as they always do) that company x did so and so years ago, nobody cares. Honestly literally NOBODY cares at all. Not one little bit. Nothing. People care when a relevant and popular company does it.
EDIT: Oh and yes, the silver ring around the home button looks lovely on the silver and white iPhone.
True. So when Samsung and HTC get fingerprint scanners, then the world will start to listen.