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Apple Says Face ID Didn't Fail Onstage During iPhone X Keynote
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Exactly. If your use case is other people touching your phone constantly, maybe the iPhone X isn't for you.
I wonder how wide the FaceID can sense? One potential downside is driving with your phone in a dash mount / CD slot mount etc. in the center of the dash. If it can't see you and you have to type in a passcode, this is a disadvantage vs. touching the home button without even looking.
The irony of it, is that what you describe as grasping at straws and pretty much that exact use case made Craig look like a fool during the presentation. Sorry. a well thought out implementation this is not it seems.
I do this with my wife's phone ALL THE TIME. She's blind as a bat. It's just easy for me to look at it quickly for her...
It doesn't need to be useless to be a step backward. Even Gruber said:"It worked as it was designed to."
So, it's apparently designed to get so confused by others that it locks, rendering itself useless.
Therefore, it's designed to be useless.
"If it’s worse than Touch ID in any meaningful way, it’s an inexcusable mistake."
The skepticism here is reasonable. Particularly given reports that Touch ID was originally planned for the device and being worked on until early this year.
It seems extremely well thought out to me. This is the most secure my phone will have ever been. If you have people handling your phone every day, and don't want to take the appropriate measures, get an iPhone 8 or competitors product
The iPhone 7 had shortages last year and the design was three years old. Just because Apple works on something for a long time, does not mean they'll be able to mass produce it shortly after announcing. It's not how it works. A manufacturering issue on a new part can cause major issues.
FaceID may be secure and not necessary, but I never said it was better. Just the same with the home button....it was a design sacrifice. No one on this planet or any other can convince me an upward swipe is more intuitive than the home button. It's an interface sacrifice that was made in light of creating a device that was mostly bezel less.
The part that looks tacked on to me is the notch. Mark my words: people are going to bitch. I'm pretty sure Apple is going to offer an "always" black status bar in a future update. If they don't, they're really missing the ball here...
____________________________________ This feature is an answer to a non-existent problem
FAIL!
FAIL!
FAIL!
Hence why you all can get the "X" and I will sit back and wait for version 2.0
FAIL!
FAIL!
Hence why you all can get the "X" and I will sit back and wait for version 2.0
Incredible hysteria, hyperbole, and absurdity. Clearly, none of you will be happy with the X. Leave more for the rest of us. Get the 8. You'll still have your touch ID.
This is way too much thinking about a hiccup in a presentation. I hope you get paid to post here.
It seems extremely well thought out to me. This is the most secure my phone will have ever been. If you have people handling your phone every day, and don't want to take the appropriate measures, get an iPhone 8 or competitors product
Nope. I will stick with present one, 6s+, thank you very much. I am satisfied with the security and speed the TouchID is providing me. And I like to enjoy my AKG and Sure Earphones via the headphone jack for another year.
I rather wait for the next year's phone, when TouchID embedded in the screen is available and enjoy reading the messages here. It will be the best thing since sliced bread.
This is because Apple is trying to solve a (identification) problem that didn't exist - thereby creating a host of other issues that they even themselves didn't have a clue about.
All wasted time and effort that could have been put into more meaningful innovation.
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Pay attention how hes holding it still and at just right amount of distance. Plus it took him quite a long time to unlock it. LEt's wait and see what will people say in november when they get their first units.
What happens if there are two people looking at the phone? i.e. if the missus and I are standing together about to take a picture. Did Apple mention that?
Yeah because I always show my friends a funny text on a lock screen. How ridiculous is that scenario.
Although it should require a passcode when you swipe up to unlock ... it wouldn’t require one just from looking at it while locked out.
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I would assume only if they try to swipe up while locked.
Depends on how one defines fail. For me fail means Craig using the device (with his face stored) as intended to unlock the phone and it not unlocking. That didn’t happen here. So yes if we want to be pedantic the demo was a fail but that doesn’t mean Face ID itself failed. And that’s what Apple is responding to. They’re not making excuses for anything.
That's the result of 5 yrs of ignored bezel opposition - whereby they came to remove bezels at all which is completely unnecessary with all the complications that arise from that arrogant attitude of overdoing things after such lamentation.
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None of you folks must work with your hands. The moment you do any heavy work with your hands [no gloves] your finger print cracks as the skin dries and flakes from working hard labor repeatedly. TouchID fails every time. It's one of the reasons the solution for facial recognition was proposed.
Of course, one can remap their finger prints over and over again, defeating the point of TouchID in the first place, or just type in 6 numbers.
Of course, one can remap their finger prints over and over again, defeating the point of TouchID in the first place, or just type in 6 numbers.
He appears to be holding it in front of his face, coincidentally at just about the sort of distance you would hold a phone in front of you.
You talked about the second half of the demo, and it getting confused when both were looking at it.
Which part is this, who is the other person, and how did this confusion manifest itself?
I don't think 'look at how he is holding it' really answers those questions. I'm genuinely curious, because I'm really not sure which part you are referring to.