Smartphones remind me of car makers that are running out of ideas so they're pumping them full of unnecessary features to drive the price up.
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Apple Shares New 'Memory' iPhone X Ad Promoting Face ID
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One problem with your comment to "you": MR editorial staff do not necessarily read comments.The "corrections" item in the Forum Rules notes the proper way to point out an error to the editorial staff.
Noted for the future, thanks.
On topic, I think the ad is quite good, and I don’t even like the concept of FaceID.
Glad faceid works so well in your world. Touchid was flawless for me. Faceid has not been. Life goes on.
I think you quoted the wrong person there, fella... I never said anything about Steve or Steve’s Apple being perfect.
It’s “astounding” how upset people get when their precious “tc” is attacked. All I said is that their ads suck. If it helps you though - I don’t think all their ads suck. IMO, they’re averaging 1/3. 1/3 of ads are what I call “good.” “Good” being that they showcase the product, it’s ease of use, the beauty of using it/it’s final product, and having a setting in reality. Older “white background” ads did just this - and best of all, never included that stupid fine print at the bottom “some images/sequences modified, shortened, improved, etc.”
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‘Merica has had one. Since MySpace. Facebook expanded that much further. You can’t escape it. It’s already been done. You posted to this forum - “they” see everything................................
Both have their pros and cons. In the bath FaceID works much better, and taking a quick glance at notifications without needing to grab your phone is helpful. But I hate how it doesn‘t work even at a slight angle. When the phone lies on a table, you need to really bend down to get your face right above it to unlock.
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Quite frankly this is one of best ads from Apple in a long time. Brilliant.
Strange how some here can’t step out of their own little boxes and see that this ad captivates, motivates, and most importantly highlights a feature that has actually been pretty stable since its introduction.
Yea, I think they can take credit for it.
Strange how some here can’t step out of their own little boxes and see that this ad captivates, motivates, and most importantly highlights a feature that has actually been pretty stable since its introduction.
Yea, I think they can take credit for it.
I felt completely different about it. I think the scenario was unrealistic und unoriginal, the part that was supposed to show the rising tension in the audience felt loud and almost offensive to me (like a person yelling right into your ear), and the resolution was lame. And all that in 90 seconds where 10 should have sufficed. Felt rather samsungy to me.
Man I could write a novella on all the instances where faceid fails for me. In sunlight outside. Wearing a surgical mask at work. Trying to hide my phone under a table at a conference. When the screen turns off for whatever reason while using gps in the car and I don’t want to hold it up in front of my face to unlock it again. Lying on my side in bed. The list goes on. I don’t wear gloves, and apparently when I run several miles, my hands don’t sweat enough for Touch ID to fail. I do like not having bezels though. I do appreciate all these people who think that Apple products should work perfectly for everyone in all instances, but sometimes I have to leave fairyland!
Opinions differ. Try and get out of the headspace of these forums and what Apples mass market customer might think watching it and maybe you’ll come to a different conclusion.
Indeed, I think in this case talking about the ad is potentially more interesting than the ad itself.
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Too bad Apple doesn't think it's as secure as Touch ID.
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/27/face-id-cant-approve-family-purchases-iphone-x/
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/27/face-id-cant-approve-family-purchases-iphone-x/
But have they fixed the mistaken identify with Face ID? Way too many false positives so it's not trustworthy for banking/payment/etc.
A scene similar to this happened in the 1950 comedy "Champagne for Caesar", where for the final $40 million dollar question, Ronald Colman was asked for his Social Security number. It was a cute movie. Vincent Price, Celeste Holm, and the very lovely Barbara Britton also star.
Moving the goalpost, I see.
As I understand it, much of those situations arise when the system did not have enough training done (i.e. only a couple of days) and confuse the two people. If you have a solid quantification of the “too many false positives”, not just some anecdotes you heard from some news stories or sensational YouTube clips, I’d love to be corrected.