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

bchery21 said:
A lot of people here complaining that they know everything before the Keynote (yet here you are frequenting a rumor website). A lot of people, too, are making fun of Tim Cook's "double down on secrecy" comment even though Apple is an extremely popular tech company and everyone out there are trying to uncover their secrets; it's an impossible feat. I like reading everyone's comments but I'm shaking my head at the same time at some of them...
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agree.
 
I love how this thread went from new iPhone feature to NSA crap talk.

Seriously if you want to talk about the NSA and how they are screwing us over please talk about it somewhere else

Honestly it's not fun constantly updating this thread and seeing arguments about our government. This is macrumors people not NSArumors
 
wigglewiggle said:
I was going to make the point that those that think differently are commonly referred to as "haters" or "trolls" but you have illustrated it perfectly.

Samsung is exactly the same as Apple in how they conduct their business. That is my point. They both use underhand practices and they both only care about the bottom line.

Apple is unique with their profit margins. They exploit brandtards and truly rip off the consumer. The consumer does not benefit from over priced products, unrealistic patents and legal proceedings against other companies. They are a slave to a monopoly.
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Really, they put a gun in your head and force you to buy their products?


Apple is in the business of to do whatever they wanna, and sell it at the price they want to. I'm in the business of buying whatever I want to. And you should focus on your own business, buy whatever phone suits you, and leave the rest to decide what to do with their lives.

I'm sick of people like you, believing that not only the possess the absolute truth, but also believe that they have been sent by a random god to evangelise the world.

If you can't understand freedom and democracy, you shouldn't be here
 
electronics1201 said:
Something I always wanted as a feature in the iPhone

some type of ambient light to signal a missed call,notification

would just blow me away if that ring would light up for those reasons...i would absolutely be blown away..(please apple..please..):):)
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That has always bugged me about iOS (and to some extent Android).

My answering machine beeps until I check my messages but my cell phone expects me to always be within earshot of its ring (which we all know isn't very loud on an iPhone). If I miss it, I have to change my life and become a slave to checking my phone to see if someone called.

How hard it is to program it to beep until I check my missed calls or VM?
 
Sir Ruben said:
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.
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Definitely it partly has to do with popularity and/or press coverage.

Look at the Pebble Watch. Press coverage, so people have heard of it. Then look at the first smartphone announced with pinch zoom. (Hint: not the iPhone.) Very little press coverage, so most people have never heard of it.

Known features are often like tail fins on cars. Plenty of stylists used them over the early years of automobiles, but most people ignored them until luxury brand Cadillac did them in a big way. Bam. Suddenly every car had to have fins.
 
Staring at this circle, I realise why I like it so much. It creates an icon out of something truly functional.

The regular home button is already defined by function, the concave face, size shape, etc. The ring fits perfectly into the existing functionality and simultaneously creates a stronger icon for the front of the device. The fact that it's circular will let the touch or swipe be uni-directional and the outline defines it, rather than just borrowing the iconography of a beveled square.

I very much enjoy!
 
dmylrea said:
If Dell, for instance, took a 2012 model Desktop PC and upped the CPU and graphics to a faster one, and added a camera card reader, and offered a couple of color options, then had a big celebration about the NEW 2013 model, wouldn't we all just yawn? Same thing. We all do the same thing now, when you buy a PC online.
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Apple has been doing much of this, minus the big celebration, for the MBPs. I don't think the retina MBP is boring. High DPI displays for Windows seems to be just kicking off.

Maybe because it's really difficult to invent new features. If Apple were to finally build a larger phone, how else would it be different besides having a bigger screen? It would probably be more of the same except with a bigger screen.
 
dmylrea said:
Until it is officially announced, we don't know for sure about the "new" features, but given the leaks and speculation, the 5S is just a faster 5 with the addition of a fingerprint scanner and possibly in a color other than black or white. Is there something else BIG that it's supposed to have that the 5 doesn't have?

If Dell, for instance, took a 2012 model Desktop PC and upped the CPU and graphics to a faster one, and added a camera card reader, and offered a couple of color options, then had a big celebration about the NEW 2013 model, wouldn't we all just yawn? Same thing. We all do the same thing now, when you buy a PC online.

That's all bigdaddy means, is that the 5S isn't technologically different than the 5 (like the 4S vs the 4), but the next number generation WILL be different and "New" (like 4 vs 5).
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So the external casing/look of the phone determines whether its a new model or not? Because in my book faster processor, better camera, fingerprint sensor, possibly better display and battery life is not last years model. But then again I'm not hung up on whether the external hardware aesthetic is different or not.
 
My question is will the metal ring around the sensor/home button be the same color as the phone? See the silver of the metal looks good on the white because the rest of the metal is the same, but in a black phone it would stand out.
 
Finger Gate

Can't wait until "Finger Gate" hits the news.
(antenna gate, etc)

I miss the rumors of Larger Screen, Edge-to-Edge curved glass, remote charging, NFC, better Siri, better camera, slow motion capture, ac WIFI, etc, etc.
 
Rogifan said:
Well I read the article and it wasn't referring to a lot of phones being released in a short period of time. It was about market saturation, incremental improvements to products, etc. It may very well be true, but I just think it's telling that only around a new Apple phone launch do we hear about "device exhaustion" and how it could hurt Apple. The Note 3 just came out the other week....didn't hear any Wall Street analysts on CNBC warning that "device exhaustion" could hurt Samsung.
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Fair enough. Personally I have tech news exhaustion over what the new phone(s) will or won't have lol
 
yg17 said:
I've gotten a US passport in the past 8 years and didn't have to give them my fingerprints.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport
 
The diagram is pretty poor when you actually think about it. Scrub all the sleep/wake button description and volume button description nonsense, and all that is new is the fingerprint button.
 
According to CNET, "...including an A7 processor, a rear camera able to capture 1080p video at 120 frames per second, and a battery capable of lasting 250 hours in standby mode on a single charge."
 
mdelvecchio said:
apple won't be storing your fingerprints -- they'll store a hashed string that represents the scan your device produces.
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which the NSA can decrypt using whatever tech they have ... or master keys given by apple.

http://www.technologyreview.com/new...math-intact-but-highlights-known-workarounds/

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mdelvecchio said:
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.
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you schooled me on that one.

::hattip::
 
Abobrek said:
If you feel this way why are you on an Apple forum? I don't understand how someone can be A SLAVE to something THEY CHOOSE to buy. Is someone forcing you to buy an iPhone or Galaxy S4? Do you not have the option to not buy a phone at all?

I think your ignorance is well beyond my understanding. Especially since SLAVES had no choice or say, and you can CHOOSE to buy a phone or not.
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Ahhh the classic response. I thought the purpose of a forum was to discuss things? Or is the purpose of this forum simply to gush over Apple?

I believe it is you that is ignorant in that you have no knowledge of brand loyalty and how powerful it is. Do you buy the branded pain medication or the generic medication? Being unaware that a decision is based on your psychological evolution and not rational thought, is in a way, being a slave.

I design and code apps on the main mobile platforms. It is in my interest to be aware of future features and improvements on the horizon. I started posting because I wanted to introduce some balance.

Perhaps I SHOULD go TO another FORUM that talks ABOUT people THAT use CAPITAL letters to EMPHASIZE points?

Oh and thanks for taking the time out of the line to post in here! :)

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/next-iphone-already-has-a-line
 
Fake. No modern company is going to call something a "switch" on the front box. Sounds like a box filled with tractor parts.
 
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