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Alleged iPhone 5S User Guide Photo Highlights Fingerprint Sensor As 'Touch ID'

Some of these comment sound exaclty like the samsung commercials making fun of the people in line...

Cracks me up....
 
peterdevries said:
I live outside the USA and get around a lot (China, UK, Germany, Italy, France, The Netherlands, USA). Please show me where it is used really widespread and not only in a few retail chains such as Starbucks outside of the USA.

Ans please provide some evidence that it is actually USED. I'm aware of some pilot programs and retail chains having them (I saw them at WH SMiths in the UK) but have NEVER EVER seen anyone use the function.
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I agree that you don't see many people using them but it will come. Most new debit cards from UK banks now come automatically with the wireless tech as standard. Personally having had my wallet stolen last year I would feel safer using my iPhone with pre-loaded credit to spend especially if you had to authenticate with your fingerprint.

I can see people using their iPhones as bus/tube passes, rail tickets, plane tickets, coffee shops, restaurants, etc. I was reading about this new PayPal app that will automatically send you vouchers when you're near a store. Imagine you go in scan your voucher and that's it you've paid. At the same time it adds your loyalty points to your account, etc. All with one swipe of the iPhone.
 
johngordon said:
In which countries? Hasn't really caught on in the UK yet.
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Oyster, contact payments at mcdonalds, whsmiths... It is everywhere in London, people dont necessarily like it being integrated into newer bank cards as it's too easy to facilitate payments from stolen cards, but the Oyster card system is huge!
 
macgeof said:
Yay, more data for the NSA ;)
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In case this hasn't been pointed out, there is no need for the biometric data to be stored anywhere except on your phone. Does the NSA know your phone's PIN? No (Well, maybe) because it is stored locally and nowhere else.
 
dvoros said:
You keep referring to a "new" iphone being released today. Whats wrong with you guys? Its just last years model. Wait for the iPhone 6 which will really be classified as "new".:confused:
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Ok I'll bite. How exactly is it last years model?
 
this is funah said:
when i was your age, apple events had surprises.
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during those years apple wasn't the leading tech company earth, wasn't making millions and millions of extremely desirable devices pre-event, didn't have as many outsourced facilities, rumor sites weren't as active, and everybody wasn't packing smartphones with good cameras.

times change.
 
Apple store is down.

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this is funah said:
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".
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apple won't be storing your fingerprints -- they'll store a hashed string that represents the scan your device produces.
 
juanmanas said:
The NSA is extremely interested in your whatsapp messages...

If you are plotting a terrorist attack, them Im very happy the NSA intercepts that info. If you are sending the best idea since sliced bread, then i guess you will encrypt your emails. If you are telling your wife you are late for supper, the NSA won't give a ****
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The NSA doesn't care about you. They are collecting and storing information about you without caring. Not one bit.

If you ever become famous or run for office, then they might care about you, and the stuff they collected that they didn't care about before can be analyzed in detail.

So if you never plan to be successful or famous or anything, you have nothing to worry about, unless you become successful or famous accidentally.
 
Still not 100% sold on the icons, but they're growing on me. I'm sure all the icon talk will iron itself out and we'll look back on iOS6 as dated and past it.
 
weespeed said:
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)
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when Samsung starts releasing fingerprint phones it will be copying -- just as they copied apples tablets, which existed pre-ipad. and smartphones pre-iPhone...the tools existed in primitive forms, apple refined them, and the clones copied those.
 
wigglewiggle said:
I was referring to the first touch screen smartphone in the context of Apple/Samsung and HTC.




Perhaps you are misinformed, but newspapers are not in the business of adding information and value. They are in the business of selling newspapers. What they produce are what they think people want and are willing to pay for.

Apple is not in the business of making the world a better place. They are in the business of creating products as cheaply as they can (horrendous working conditions) and selling those products to people at the highest price they can (400% - 500% profit margin)

When the public gets "bored" of the NSA stories, the papers will stop printing them. When the brandtards get "bored" of Apple (noted by investors with their 30% drop in share price) then the tiniest bit of innovation is viewed as ground breaking and is shielded aggressively from people trying to point it out for what it is.
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Yep, Samsung factories are built in the caribbean, where workers receive complimentary margaritas every 15 minutes.

Yep, Apple is doomed. Samsung, which cannot even make an operative system and has to get the code from Google is the future.

Nope, I don't care about the NSA. Im not a terrorist or a thief. And at my company, all secret info is sent encrypted.

To be honest, you are such a hater and radical, that I would ask you to refrain to answer my messages. As Churchill said, a radical is that who never changes his mind and will never change the topic. So get a friend from haterland, where you belong. Radicals like you give me the creeps.
 
doelcm82 said:
The NSA doesn't care about you. They are collecting and storing information about you without caring. Not one bit.

If you ever become famous or run for office, then they might care about you, and the stuff they collected that they didn't care about before can be analyzed in detail.

So if you never plan to be successful or famous or anything, you have nothing to worry about, unless you become successful or famous accidentally.
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Nonsense. But its a good movie plot. You should produce it. And then the NSA will come home to scare you... Boooooo
 
tekno said:
Seriously, so what? If they want to trawl through my text messages from my girlfriend telling me to get milk on the way home from work and emails from Amazon, I'm fine with that.

I've nothing to hide, so why should I care?
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Citizenship fail :(
 
tekno said:
Seriously, so what? If they want to trawl through my text messages from my girlfriend telling me to get milk on the way home from work and emails from Amazon, I'm fine with that.

I've nothing to hide, so why should I care?
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that isn't how America operates. that's how tyranny sells itself until it's too late and they decide you do have something to hide.

maybe you're not familiar with the FBI trying to frame Martin Luther King Jr...
 
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