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Touch ID Optional?
This might be a silly question given Apple's track record, but do you suppose there is a chance that TouchID would be an optional function on the new iPad? I feel like that would be a great way to offer a price break for those who don't want this feature like myself.
I know it's a great security feature and all, but I'm not sure how comfortable I am giving up my finger print to a company so high on the NSA's priority list. Even if it is just stored as data, if anyone can access it, it's probably them...
This might be a silly question given Apple's track record, but do you suppose there is a chance that TouchID would be an optional function on the new iPad? I feel like that would be a great way to offer a price break for those who don't want this feature like myself.
I know it's a great security feature and all, but I'm not sure how comfortable I am giving up my finger print to a company so high on the NSA's priority list. Even if it is just stored as data, if anyone can access it, it's probably them...
I thought the "Next Generation" iPad IS the iPad Air.
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You do realize that it's very possible that while Apple may add more ram to the next model there may be functions in it that might eat up much of that ram.
. Also I have counted less than 3 crashes in a month's time with extensive use on my iPad Air and that's between iOS 7 and 7.1.
I doubt they make the battery bigger with that extra space. That isn't Apple's MO. They would find a way to increase battery life while keeping the battery the same size or making it even smaller. Thinner is better, at least according to Apple.
Thinner is better because the device can become lighter. The weight of the iPad Air is great. But making it even lighter will be awesome.
Never really had an issue with battery life. I guess it is my preference, but I would take an even lighter iPad with the same battery life, over an iPad with the current weight and a longer battery life.
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What the hell is going on with all these leaks WAY earlier than they have been in the past?
It used to be these kinds of leaks occurred 1 week before product reveal. Now they come 6 months before product reveals. How is Apple supposed to keep its lead on Samsung when Samsung can see what they need to clone months earlier?
It used to be these kinds of leaks occurred 1 week before product reveal. Now they come 6 months before product reveals. How is Apple supposed to keep its lead on Samsung when Samsung can see what they need to clone months earlier?
bigger battery?!?!?!
I thought everyone wanted a thinner device
The air is thin enough, until battery technology have a breaktrough in how they can contain bigger energy charge in smaller thinner package. This is probably the thinnest point for the ipad air.
How does Apple access it when it's device specific and stored on the devices chip?
All these Apple products are releasing "later this year". Why can't they release from "this summer"? Why?
It's been explained again and again how Apple uses only mathematical representations of your fingerprint, and not your actual fingerprint. Also, it is on a separate locked down chip that isn't accessible by anything else.
It is an optional function, you don't have to use it.
If they do it, they'll probably add it to all future models.
A lot of people want it. Not me, it just seems silly.
I'm not trying to be a troll, so forgive me. I think I would just like to err on the side of caution here. I want to believe what you and others say, but my gut tells me where there is data, there is a way to access it with the proper resources. Something about a Patriot Act and a HUGE data center tells me the US Government just might have these resources! It's not Apple I don't trust. It's the jackasses with the "court orders"
Instead of opsessing with thinness Apple should try to add functionalities to iPad. I have a 3rd gen and don't have much reason to upgrade.
Maybe they were taken by Tim Cook himself. When he said he was doubling down on secrecy, perhaps he meant he was going to release twice as many secrets in order to generate more excitement.
If it makes you feel better, it would only require a very little data center to store your fingerprint data.