Apple's production issues with the X are not rumor. Is this particular rumor true? I don't know. But Apple's X yields are going to underperform for the year. FACT.
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Apple Reportedly Reduced Face ID Accuracy to Speed Up iPhone X Production
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Apple's production issues with the X are not rumor. Is this particular rumor true? I don't know. But Apple's X yields are going to underperform for the year. FACT.
Why? It's going to be released regardless of the press. Any reasonable person would wait to see how the device performs, and anyone else isn't going to believe Apple anyway. Better to say nothing and let the device speak for itself.
More reason to wait until the 2nd generation FaceID, whenever that may be. Could be next year's model or the year after. It took them two cycles to introduce the 2nd gen TouchID, which is a marked improvement over the first one. This iPhone 10 is going to be low on supply, have a lower accuracy FaceID (which may or may not impact speed and reliability), and the jury is still out on the OLED panel quality once it's in the hands of millions.
It depends on the definition of "standards" is for this component.
For example, say FaceID was required to have an accuracy of "7" to meet standards, and Apple started out making them at "10", but "10" was not sustainable, so they dropped it to 7 or 8. That would be a drop, but still in their range of "meeting standards".
That happens quite a bit in mass production.
If this is true then the iPhone that Craig Federighi used to demo was more accurate than the consumer version.
I mean, yeah, that’s all products really - but the 98% includes those early adopters who took a chance on a risky product. Turns out, Apple nailed it.
[doublepost=1508946225][/doublepost]What good would it do for Apple to come out and deny it, really? 99% won’t take their words at face value anyhow.
If true, this will notch end well.
I was under the impression that lower-quality FaceID technology would cause unauthorized access to the phone, but I was just paranoid.
You have to ask when this 'adjustment' was made.
So there are adjustments to manufacturing. But this article makes it seem like this happened a few weeks ago, so everyone is jumping up and down, Maybe it did? but it's not explored, which makes this silly.
So there are adjustments to manufacturing. But this article makes it seem like this happened a few weeks ago, so everyone is jumping up and down, Maybe it did? but it's not explored, which makes this silly.
Remember, this is going to be secure enough to validate ApplePay. Samsung doesn't allow their technology to validate for SamsungPay.
This will be more secure than TouchID, even if it's only 1 in 100,000 instead of 1 in 1,000,000.
I think report states that Dot Projector modules were not meeting the mandated Face ID requirements in terms of accuracy where usable rate is only 20% of the total parts manufactured.
It is the amount of testing that involves many stiff parameters delay the production process (QC). By reducing the number of steps in the QC they are assured of far higher yields.
Or at least his parts were more accurately MADE, which can be a different thing from actually being less accurate at their job.
So any news that is negative towards Apple is fake news? And besides, you do know what rumor means, right?
we would if they allowed reviews before pre-orders, best you can do is pre-order and return it if its not up to par.
this rumor describes exactly what happened to samsung tho lol, either their full of it or Apple really screwed up.