I do not believe a thing Apple says about the iPhone. They are very good at making excuses for the shortcomings of their products. Apple is not forcing people to use facial recognition currently but it will soon take over as the primary function of security on the iPhone, for example, Apple got rid of the headphone jack in favor of a lightning port version of headphones. No real reason to do it. They claim it was for more room but that is not true. The lightning port electronics was about twice as big as the headphone jack. Why didn't they just go to USB-C instead of lightning? It was for money, money, money. If you buy an iPhone you have to buy Apple's accessories because of the lightning port. Instead of standardize everything, you as the consumer are forced to buying Apple accessories. Now once the iPhone X has allowed Apple to push the price of these devices into the $999 range and above, do not be surprised if the next version of the iPhone will start at $1,200 or higher. Apple is just greedy and are great at marketing their inferior products because all the technology used in these products have been in the marketplace for some time now. Apple does not do anything new. The innovator, Steve Jobs, is no longer with us and Tim is no innovator just a snake oil salesman. I am disappointed with Apple.